I was like everyone else when Obama was elected – optimistic.
GORE VIDALI was the most famous kid in the United States. That was 1936.
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To a man, ornithologists are tall, slender, and bearded so that they can stand motionless for hours, imitating kindly trees, as they watch for birds.
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What I like least about myself is my belligerence.
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There’s a lot to be said for being nouveau riche, and the Reagans mean to say it all.
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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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Now you have people in Washington who have no interest in the country at all. They’re interested in their companies, their corporations grabbing Caspian oil.
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We’re not a democracy.
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It’s always best to stay out of other people’s divorces. And their civil wars.
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Gossip is conversation about people.
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As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.
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Nearly everyone who goes into a campaign is not only eager for the place he hopes to fill but for what might come after.
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What I am is something unbearable for the world of journalism and the world of cliches. I’m a realist.
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I’m exactly as I appear. There is no warm, lovable person inside. Beneath my cold exterior, once you break the ice, you find cold water.
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It is essential to naturalist doctrine that literature, to be good, must, finally, be the author’s experience worked out literally.
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One is sorry one could not have taken both branches of the road. But we were not allotted multiple selves.
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I was the most famous kid in the United States. That was 1936.
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