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I was the most famous kid in the United States. That was 1936.

Gore Vidal

I can’t name three first-rate literary critics in the United States. I’m told there are a few hidden away at universities, but they don’t print them in ‘The New York Times.’
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Criticism Literature Myself Name University
The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.
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Himself Interesting Money
Corporations must pay tax.
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Corporation Pay Tax
I was the most famous kid in the United States. That was 1936.
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Children Country Famous Past Time
We must declare ourselves, become known; allow the world to discover this subterranean life of ours which connects kings and farm boys, artists and clerks. Let them see that the important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.
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Artist Discover Emotion Important Known World
Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.
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Death Friendship Myself Success
The truth about Pearl Harbour is obscured to this day. But it has been much studied.
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Day Study Truth Unknown
By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he’s been bought ten times over.
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Himself Man Material President Time
Baseball is the favorite American sport because it’s so slow. Any idiot can follow it. And just about any idiot can play it.
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Baseball Play Slow Sports
It is always a delicate matter, when a friend or acquaintance becomes president.
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Delicate Friendship President
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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Book Edition Grown Library Reading
It is true, as Sartre once wrote, referring to French Army atrocities in Algeria, that the real tragedy in our time is that any of us can be, interchangeably, victim or torturer.
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Change Reality Time Torture Victim
Each youth betrays considerable anxiety about the wedding night ahead.
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Anxiety Night Youth
It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true.
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Age Believe Exercise Imagination Spirit
Some of my father’s fellow West Pointers once asked him why I turned out so well, his secret in raising me. And he said, ‘I never gave him any advice, and he never asked for any.’ We agreed on nothing, but we never quarreled once.
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Agreement Father Fellow Himself Raise Secret
Never have children, only grandchildren.
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Children Family Funny

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