Each youth betrays considerable anxiety about the wedding night ahead.
GORE VIDALI never wanted to be a writer. I mean, that’s the last thing I wanted.
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I was raised in the Washington household of my grandfather Senator Thomas P. Gore of Oklahoma, and have known politicians intimately all my life.
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It’s always best to stay out of other people’s divorces. And their civil wars.
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Boys don’t like girls around when they do boy things.
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As a schoolboy, I read most of Carl Sandburg’s six-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln.
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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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Corporations must pay tax.
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It is true, as Sartre once wrote, referring to French Army atrocities in Algeria, that the real tragedy in our time is that any of us can be, interchangeably, victim or torturer.
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The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.
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I was the most famous kid in the United States. That was 1936.
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Both Marx and Christ agree that in this life, a right action is consideration for the welfare of others.
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All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world.
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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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Love is not my bag.
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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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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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