My father had lifelong contempt for politicians.
GORE VIDALThe four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.
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Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.
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Gossip is conversation about people.
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What I like least about myself is my belligerence.
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Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.
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There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.
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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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I could be a lot happier. I could be the senator from Aerospace taking bribes, and be quite happy.
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All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world.
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Democracy is supposed to give you the feeling of choice, like Painkiller X and Painkiller Y. But they’re both just aspirin.
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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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Baseball is the favorite American sport because it’s so slow. Any idiot can follow it. And just about any idiot can play it.
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What other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke?
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A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.
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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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I’m exactly as I appear. There is no warm, lovable person inside. Beneath my cold exterior, once you break the ice, you find cold water.
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