The whole book experience was a look into another world, the world of Gore Vidal and Norman Mailer.
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Half of the American people never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.
Gore Vidal in The World Almanac and Book of Facts (1993)
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Until the rise of American advertising, it never occurred to anyone anywhere in the world that the teenager was a captive in a hostile world of adults.
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All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world.
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The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity - much less dissent.
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That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers.
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When I read it, I don't wince, which is all I ever ask for a book I write.
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The Irish are the only men who know how to cry for the dirty polluted blood of all the world.
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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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The highest prize in a world of men is the most beautiful woman available on your arm and living there in her heart loyal to you.
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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.
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There's a subterranean impetus towards pornography so powerful that half the business world is juiced by the sort of half sex that one finds in advertisements.
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The difference between writing a book and being on television is the difference between conceiving a child and having a baby made in a test tube.
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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.
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We're not a democracy.
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A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.
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Never have children, only grandchildren.
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There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.
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It is not enough to succeed; others must fail.
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It's not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
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I'm a born-again atheist.
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