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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.

Gore Vidal

What I am is something unbearable for the world of journalism and the world of cliches. I’m a realist.
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Journalism Reality World
All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.
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Children Expectation Forever
Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.
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Confidence Personality Style Yourself
Every country should have at least one King Farouk.
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Country Oneself
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
A friend was surprised to hear me say that there was not one moment of my past that I would like to relive.
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Friendship Moments Myself Past Surprise
Love is not my bag.
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Love One Liner
I could be a lot happier. I could be the senator from Aerospace taking bribes, and be quite happy.
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Bribe Happiness Myself Quite
I am told the Cheney-Bush team dislikes their junta being compared to the Nazis. If they ceased behaving like Nazis, no comparison would come to mind.
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Behave Comparison Mindset Myself Team
I can understand companionship.
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Companionship Understand
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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Active Literature Lose Time Virtue World Writing
Anybody who is stupid enough to want to be remembered deserves to be forgotten right now.
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Deserve Enough Stupidity
There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.
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Human Myself People Problem Solution
Envy is the central fact of American life.
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Central Fact Life
The United States was founded by the brightest people in the country – and we haven’t seen them since.
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Country Finding People State
Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.
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Business Country Faith Fiction Lost Writing

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