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It’s always best to stay out of other people’s divorces. And their civil wars.

Gore Vidal

Nearly everyone who goes into a campaign is not only eager for the place he hopes to fill but for what might come after.
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Filling Himself Hope Place
My father had lifelong contempt for politicians.
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Father Life Myself Politics
I never said I was gay, because I don’t think anyone is.
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Myself Sexuality Thinking
It is always a delicate matter, when a friend or acquaintance becomes president.
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Delicate Friendship President
It is very difficult for a writer of my generation, if he is honest, to pretend indifference to the work of Somerset Maugham. He was always so entirely there.
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Difficult Himself Honesty Pretend
Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.
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Definition Preparation President
I cannot remember when I was not fascinated by Henry Adams.
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Fascination Myself Remember
Write something, even if it’s just a suicide note.
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Note Suicide Writing
A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.
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Better Narcissism Yourself
The United States is the only civilized country in the world to class its teachers at the bottom of the social scale.
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Civilization Country Scale Social Teacher World
Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.
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Audience Drink Writing
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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God Graduation Known Yourself
As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.
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Election Illumination Language Liberal Society Vote
The United States is a madhouse.
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Country Home Madness State
All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world.
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Missing Myself World
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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Baseball Play Slow Sports

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