Boys don’t like girls around when they do boy things.
GORE VIDALLitigation takes the place of sex at middle age.
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I’m a fervent foe of water pollution, whether it is our own Hudson River or Philadelphia’s tap water.
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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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I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
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To get people to do needed things is the perennial hard task of government, not to mention of religion and philosophy.
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Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.
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Fifty percent of people won’t vote, and fifty percent don’t read newspapers. I hope it’s the same fifty percent.
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I don’t even read most reviews, unless there is a potential lawsuit on view.
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Sex is. There is nothing more to be done about it. Sex builds no roads, writes no novels and sex certainly gives no meaning to anything in life but itself.
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What the police in their ignorance have not figured out is that they have lost all credibility since World War II. They are sort of parasites on the fringe of society and do no particular good for anyone except possibly themselves.
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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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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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I am not, at heart, a playwright.
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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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What I am is something unbearable for the world of journalism and the world of cliches. I’m a realist.
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At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation and prejudice.
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