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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.

Gore Vidal

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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Friendship Moments Myself Past Surprise
The only thing that I react really violently to is being misquoted.
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Misunderstanding Quote Reaction Violence
In classical times, it was a capital offense to speculate upon the hour of a king’s death or upon the identity of his successor.
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Capital Death Himself Offense Success Time
You hear all this whining going on, ‘Where are our great writers?’ The thing I might feel doleful about is: Where are the readers?
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Greatness Reading Writing Yourself
I’ve yet to read a memoir by anyone I’ve known at all well that came anywhere near to the truth.
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Myself Reading Truth
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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Commitment Democracy Government Independent Party Politics Serious
The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.
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Himself Interesting Money
I never said I was gay, because I don’t think anyone is.
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Myself Sexuality Thinking
Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.
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Audience Drink Writing
I am only at home in the present.
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Home Oneself Present
I was raised in the Washington household of my grandfather Senator Thomas P. Gore of Oklahoma, and have known politicians intimately all my life.
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Childhood Home Life Myself Politician Raise
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
It is always a delicate matter, when a friend or acquaintance becomes president.
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Delicate Friendship President
Today’s public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can’t read them either.
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Evidence Figure Reading Speech
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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Act Finding Force National Police
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

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