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Gore Vidal

It’s odd to meet a rather elderly man who says, ‘I’ve been reading you all my life.’ It makes you feel a slight chill.
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Feeling Life Man Yourself
It is always a delicate matter, when a friend or acquaintance becomes president.
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Delicate Friendship President
The human race is plainly nothing in eternity, but to us, in time, it is everything and ought not to die.
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Death Forever Human Race
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
The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.
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Himself Interesting Money
Of all recent presidents, Clinton was expected to behave the most sensibly in economic matters. He understood how the economy works. But because he had used various dodges to stay out of the Vietnam War, he came to office ill at ease with the military.
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Economy Himself President Understand Work
The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity – much less dissent.
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Elimination Management Media Object Opinion World
Until very recently, the artist was a magician who did his magic in public view but kept himself and his effects a matter of mystery.
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Artist Himself Magic Mystery Public View
I am a novelist turned temporary adventurer, and I chose to write television, movies and plays for much the same reason that Henry Morgan selected the Spanish Main for his peculiar – and not dissimilar – sphere of operations.
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Adventure Movie Myself Novel Operation Play Sphere Temporary
We are pleased to dismiss politics as entirely corrupt, if not financially, intellectually.
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Financial Intellectual Politics
I think I have a normal threshold of anger, but it’s true that I am, by nature, belligerent.
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Angry Myself Nature 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
He who is last had best laugh.
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End Himself Laughter
If you are a Representative and want to be a Senator, you must be careful not to do anything which might upset the various forces you need to harness to get elected.
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Election Force Yourself
I was the most famous kid in the United States. That was 1936.
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Children Country Famous Past Time
There is no such thing as a homosexual or a heterosexual person. There are only homo- or heterosexual acts. Most people are a mixture of impulses if not practices.
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Impulse People Person Practice Sexual

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