Write something, even if it’s just a suicide note.
GORE VIDALI was the most famous kid in the United States. That was 1936.
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Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.
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While campaigning, I got to know many high-school teachers, and let me say that the good ones are the unsung heroes of our society, and the bad ones are the gravediggers.
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The United States is a madhouse.
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By the end of World War II, we were the most powerful and least damaged of the great nations. We also had most of the money. America’s hegemony lasted exactly five years.
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The unfed mind devours itself.
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A friend was surprised to hear me say that there was not one moment of my past that I would like to relive.
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As a schoolboy, I read most of Carl Sandburg’s six-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln.
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I am not, at heart, a playwright.
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American history has fallen more and more into the hands of academics.
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Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.
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When I say ‘president,’ I still mean Roosevelt – wisely, I think.
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I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
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Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.
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The human race is plainly nothing in eternity, but to us, in time, it is everything and ought not to die.
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I’m a fervent foe of water pollution, whether it is our own Hudson River or Philadelphia’s tap water.
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