Gossip is conversation about people.
GORE VIDALThere is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.
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There is no such thing as a homosexual or a heterosexual person. There are only homo- or heterosexual acts. Most people are a mixture of impulses if not practices.
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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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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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The unfed mind devours itself.
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All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world.
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The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity – much less dissent.
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I am not, at heart, a playwright.
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On September 5, 1774, forty-five of the weightiest colonial men formed the First Continental Congress at Philadelphia.
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What I like least about myself is my belligerence.
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I’m not paranoid, no. I’m different in that I have enemies. Very real ones.
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Envy is the central fact of American life.
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That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers.
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Americans, in general, are ignorant, bigoted, and deeply unhappy with their declining incomes.
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While campaigning, I got to know many high-school teachers, and let me say that the good ones are the unsung heroes of our society, and the bad ones are the gravediggers.
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Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they’re scraping the top of the barrel.
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