In essence, Clinton’s Anti-Terrorism Act would set up a national police force, over the long-dead bodies of the founders.
GORE VIDALWe must declare ourselves, become known; allow the world to discover this subterranean life of ours which connects kings and farm boys, artists and clerks. Let them see that the important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.
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It is always a delicate matter, when a friend or acquaintance becomes president.
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It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true.
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What I am is something unbearable for the world of journalism and the world of cliches. I’m a realist.
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Between fourteen and nineteen, I must have begun and abandoned six novels.
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One is sorry one could not have taken both branches of the road. But we were not allotted multiple selves.
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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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I am not, at heart, a playwright.
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I cannot remember when I was not fascinated by Henry Adams.
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Gossip is conversation about people.
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My father had lifelong contempt for politicians.
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After adolescence, if one’s life is sufficiently interesting, the desire to tell oneself stories diminishes.
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We’re not a democracy.
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I never wanted to be a writer. I mean, that’s the last thing I wanted.
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I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
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Write something, even if it’s just a suicide note.
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