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" All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself. "

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" Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences. "

" A friend was surprised to hear me say that there was not one moment of my past that I would like to relive. "

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" Gossip is conversation about people. "

" Why not just eliminate the federal income tax? "

" Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made. "

" Each youth betrays considerable anxiety about the wedding night ahead. "

" In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you're a great writer, you must say that you are. "

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" You cannot deprive somebody of life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, because that is a right - constitutional right. "

" 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. "

" I think I have a normal threshold of anger, but it's true that I am, by nature, belligerent. "

" You hear all this whining going on, 'Where are our great writers?' The thing I might feel doleful about is: Where are the readers? "

" The United States is a madhouse. "

" I'm always an optimist! "

" To invent a war means that you've become a wartime president, and you can suspend much if not all of the Bill of Rights. "

" Until very recently, the artist was a magician who did his magic in public view but kept himself and his effects a matter of mystery. "

" 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. "

" I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television. "

" A racial or religious or tribal identity is a kind of fact. "

" I cannot remember when I was not fascinated by Henry Adams. "

" Democracy is supposed to give you the feeling of choice, like Painkiller X and Painkiller Y. But they're both just aspirin. "

" I could be a lot happier. I could be the senator from Aerospace taking bribes, and be quite happy. "

" The individual's desire to dominate his environment is not a desirable trait in a society which every day grows more and more confining. "

" Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates. "

" The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return. "

" Andy Warhol is the only genius I've ever known with an I.Q. of 60. "

" We 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. "