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As for civil liberties, any one who is not vigilant may one day find himself living, if not in a police state, at least in a police city.

Gore Vidal

Boys don’t like girls around when they do boy things.
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Character Human Male Nature
Temperamentally, I am suspicious of belonging to anything. When I ran for office, I debated seriously whether or not to run as an independent because I was not eager to be saddled with the Democratic Party, because any party label is committing.
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Commitment Democracy Government Independent Party Politics Serious
Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.
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Democracy Form High Ourselves Scale
What the police in their ignorance have not figured out is that they have lost all credibility since World War II. They are sort of parasites on the fringe of society and do no particular good for anyone except possibly themselves.
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Credible Exception Ignorance Possible Society
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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Age Believe Exercise Imagination Spirit
Love is not my bag.
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Love One Liner
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
All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.
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Children Expectation Forever
The United States is a madhouse.
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Country Home Madness State
One is sorry one could not have taken both branches of the road. But we were not allotted multiple selves.
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Choice Journey Oneself Road
Sex is. There is nothing more to be done about it. Sex builds no roads, writes no novels and sex certainly gives no meaning to anything in life but itself.
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Build Meaning Novel Sex
I can’t name three first-rate literary critics in the United States. I’m told there are a few hidden away at universities, but they don’t print them in ‘The New York Times.’
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Criticism Literature Myself Name University
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
That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president.
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Bank Loyalty President
Like the TV networks, once our government has a hit, it will be repeated over and over again.
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Government Repeat Willing
Every country should have at least one King Farouk.
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Country Oneself

As for civil liberties, any one who is not vigilant may one day find himself living, if not in a police state, at least in a police city.

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