Gossip is conversation about people.
GORE VIDALLitigation takes the place of sex at middle age.
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I remember the Bond movies when I was a child. They were silent then.
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From April 1775 to July 1776, the undeclared war between England and its American colonies smoldered, flared up, appeared to sputter out… It was hardly, ever, a mass rebellion.
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I hate nobody.
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In character, as it were, the writer settles for an impression of what happened rather than creating the sense of the thing happening.
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Europe began as the relatively empty, uncivilized Wild West of Asia; then the Western Hemisphere became the Wild West of Europe. Now the sun has set in our West and risen once more in the East.
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History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true.
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You cannot deprive somebody of life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, because that is a right – constitutional right.
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I never said I was gay, because I don’t think anyone is.
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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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The American high school graduate is two years behind his English, French or German counterpart; in Alabama, God knows how far behind.
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It is essential to naturalist doctrine that literature, to be good, must, finally, be the author’s experience worked out literally.
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The unfed mind devours itself.
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Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.
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I think I have a normal threshold of anger, but it’s true that I am, by nature, belligerent.
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All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.
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