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" Every country should have at least one King Farouk. "

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" Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies. "

" There is no such thing as a homosexual or a heterosexual person. There are only homo- or heterosexual acts. Most people are a mixture of impulses if not practices. "

" 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. "

" TV news is not very instructive. "

" History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true. "

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

" Fortunately, our audiences are used to a kind of boredom in the theatre, and if the writer is skillful, he will flatter them into thinking: 'Why, that's us up there, and aren't we - for all our little foibles - pretty nice guys and gals?' "

" Why not just eliminate the federal income tax? "

" 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. "

" For every Scott Fitzgerald concerned with the precise word and the selection of relevant incident, there are a hundred American writers, many well-regarded, who appear to believe that one word is just as good as another and that everything which occurs to them is worth putting down. "

" What is in question is a kind of book reviewing which seems to be more and more popular: the loose putting down of opinions as though they were facts, and the treating of facts as though they were opinions. "

" I'm a fervent foe of water pollution, whether it is our own Hudson River or Philadelphia's tap water. "

" Between fourteen and nineteen, I must have begun and abandoned six novels. "

" My father once said something very shrewd about me to a woman journalist who had told him how courageous she thought I was for always speaking my mind. My father said, 'If you couldn't care less what anyone says about you, then it's not courage.' "

" As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests. "

" I can understand companionship. "

" Obama just came swiftly out of nowhere, which was a relief to those of us who care about the Republic, and at first he seemed a very good thing. "

" Love is not my bag. "

" What I am is something unbearable for the world of journalism and the world of cliches. I'm a realist. "

" Friends, there is no Left in American politics. "

" To preserve the human race, it is now necessary to reorganize society. To this end, an Authority must be created with the power to control human population, to redistribute food, to purify air, water, soil, to re-pattern the cities. "

" Does one ever read a politician's books? "

" Gossip is conversation about people. "

" Having no contemporaries left means you cannot say, 'Well, so-and-so will like this,' which you do when you're younger. You realize there is no so-and-so anymore. You are your own so-and-so. There is a bleak side to it. "

" Nearly everyone who goes into a campaign is not only eager for the place he hopes to fill but for what might come after. "

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

" The behaviour of President Bush on 11 September certainly gives rise to not unnatural suspicions. "

" I was raised in the Washington household of my grandfather Senator Thomas P. Gore of Oklahoma, and have known politicians intimately all my life. "

" It's odd to meet a rather elderly man who says, 'I've been reading you all my life.' It makes you feel a slight chill. "

" On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died. "