All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.
GORE VIDALWe’re not a democracy.
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The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.
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Every country should have at least one King Farouk.
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Having no contemporaries left means you cannot say, ‘Well, so-and-so will like this,’ which you do when you’re younger. You realize there is no so-and-so anymore. You are your own so-and-so. There is a bleak side to it.
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Jews, blacks and homosexuals are despised by the Christian and Communist majorities of East and West. Also, as a result of the invention of Israel, Jews can now count on the hatred of the Islamic world.
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I never said I was gay, because I don’t think anyone is.
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Americans have no idea of the extent of their government’s mischief… the number of military strikes we have made unprovoked, against other countries, since 1947 is more than 250.
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I hate nobody.
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Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.
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In character, as it were, the writer settles for an impression of what happened rather than creating the sense of the thing happening.
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Americans, in general, are ignorant, bigoted, and deeply unhappy with their declining incomes.
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From April 1775 to July 1776, the undeclared war between England and its American colonies smoldered, flared up, appeared to sputter out… It was hardly, ever, a mass rebellion.
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The first grown-up book that I read on my own was a nineteenth-century edition of ‘Tales from Livy’ that I’d found in my grandfather’s library.
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The truth about Pearl Harbour is obscured to this day. But it has been much studied.
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Between fourteen and nineteen, I must have begun and abandoned six novels.
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Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.
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