I can understand companionship.
GORE VIDALIt 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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As the age of television progresses the Reagans will be the rule, not the exception. To be perfect for television is all a President has to be these days.
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I was the most famous kid in the United States. That was 1936.
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Temperamentally, I am suspicious of belonging to anything. When I ran for office, I debated seriously whether or not to run as an independent because I was not eager to be saddled with the Democratic Party, because any party label is committing.
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The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.
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Envy is the central fact of American life.
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Anybody who is stupid enough to want to be remembered deserves to be forgotten right now.
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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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Between fourteen and nineteen, I must have begun and abandoned six novels.
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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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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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Since we have literally targeted our enemies, the Pentagon assumes that, sooner or later, rogues will take out our cities, presumably from spaceships.
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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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In essence, Clinton’s Anti-Terrorism Act would set up a national police force, over the long-dead bodies of the founders.
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Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.
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There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.
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