I was the most famous kid in the United States. That was 1936.
GORE VIDALThe four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.
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Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.
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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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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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Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they’re scraping the top of the barrel.
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On September 5, 1774, forty-five of the weightiest colonial men formed the First Continental Congress at Philadelphia.
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I’m always an optimist!
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In the German concentration camps, Jews wore yellow stars while homosexuals wore pink lambdas.
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In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you’re a great writer, you must say that you are.
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After adolescence, if one’s life is sufficiently interesting, the desire to tell oneself stories diminishes.
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I’m all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.
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Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made.
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It is always a delicate matter, when a friend or acquaintance becomes president.
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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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Policemen are seldom tried for their crimes, or indeed, held responsible for what they do, which disturbs the peace and causes distress among the orderly.
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Jews, blacks and homosexuals are despised by the Christian and Communist majorities of East and West. Also, as a result of the invention of Israel, Jews can now count on the hatred of the Islamic world.
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