Never have children, only grandchildren.
GORE VIDALAmericans, in general, are ignorant, bigoted, and deeply unhappy with their declining incomes.
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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
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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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All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.
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I could be a lot happier. I could be the senator from Aerospace taking bribes, and be quite happy.
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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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Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they’re scraping the top of the barrel.
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By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he’s been bought ten times over.
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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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From April 1775 to July 1776, the undeclared war between England and its American colonies smoldered, flared up, appeared to sputter out… It was hardly, ever, a mass rebellion.
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Between fourteen and nineteen, I must have begun and abandoned six novels.
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Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.
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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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I cannot remember when I was not fascinated by Henry Adams.
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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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Both Marx and Christ agree that in this life, a right action is consideration for the welfare of others.
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