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One is sorry one could not have taken both branches of the road. But we were not allotted multiple selves.

Gore Vidal

Each youth betrays considerable anxiety about the wedding night ahead.
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Anxiety Night Youth
Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both die.
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Attack Death Earth Ourselves Thinking
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
I could be a lot happier. I could be the senator from Aerospace taking bribes, and be quite happy.
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Bribe Happiness Myself Quite
The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.
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Class Genius heavy Ourselves Rule System
I’m always an optimist!
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Myself Optimism
Until the rise of American advertising, it never occurred to anyone anywhere in the world that the teenager was a captive in a hostile world of adults.
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Adult Advertise Captive Rise World
Remember, I’m West Point, where I was born. My father went there.
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Born Father Myself Remember
All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.
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Children Expectation Forever
Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.
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Definition Preparation President
You cannot deprive somebody of life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, because that is a right – constitutional right.
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Happiness Liberty Life Right
Having no contemporaries left means you cannot say, ‘Well, so-and-so will like this,’ which you do when you’re younger. You realize there is no so-and-so anymore. You are your own so-and-so. There is a bleak side to it.
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Contemporary Realize Young Yourself
I am only at home in the present.
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Home Oneself Present
I can understand companionship.
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Companionship Understand
I am not, at heart, a playwright.
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Heart Personality Play
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

One is sorry one could not have taken both branches of the road. But we were not allotted multiple selves.

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