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" A narcissist is someone better looking than you are. "
Gore Vidal
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" I can understand companionship. "
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" He who is last had best laugh. "
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" I've yet to read a memoir by anyone I've known at all well that came anywhere near to the truth. "
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" Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies. "
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" To prevent the theft of 'Ben-Hur's sets, guards were prowling the back lot long after production had been shut down. "
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" 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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" Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences. "
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" Americans are future-minded to the point of obsession. We are impatient at living in the present. Tomorrow is bound to be better... next year, next century, always what might be rather than what is. This trait in us makes for 'progress;' it also makes for a continuing dissatisfaction. "
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" Ayn Rand is a rhetorician who writes novels I have never been able to read. "
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" In classical times, it was a capital offense to speculate upon the hour of a king's death or upon the identity of his successor. "
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" I think there is an instinct out there to rid us of our masters. "
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" I began life as an absolute monarchist - on condition, of course, that I be that monarch. "
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" Americans, in general, are ignorant, bigoted, and deeply unhappy with their declining incomes. "
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" The human race is plainly nothing in eternity, but to us, in time, it is everything and ought not to die. "
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" After the French Revolution, the world money power shifted from Paris to London. For three generations, the British maintained an old-fashioned colonial empire, as well as a modern empire based on London's primacy in the money markets. "
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