Really you just gotta keep chugging along and keep a positive attitude and get through all the problems. You gotta face them, otherwise you don't get through.


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That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness...
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The Bush administration works closely with a network of rapid response digital brownshirts who work ...
AL GORE
Never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
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For half a century photography has been the "art form" of the untalented. Obviously some pictures ar...
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Half of the American people never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is...
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Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence...
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Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.
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It is difficult to find a reputable American historian who will acknowledge the crude fact that a Fr...
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I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
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There is no such thing as a homosexual or a heterosexual person. There are only homo -- or heterosex...
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Sex is. There is nothing more to be done about it. Sex builds no roads, writes no novels and sex cer...
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I don't know if my mother was a narcissist - or bi-polar or borderline. Those were words she tos...
ARIEL GORE
The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.
GORE VIDAL
Never have children, only grand children.
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Great critics do not explicate a text; they describe it and then report on what they have described,...
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I'm exactly as I appear. There is no warm lovable person inside. Beneath my cold exterior, once you ...
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When Ronald Reagan's career in show business came to an end, he was hired to impersonate, first, a C...
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How marvelous books are, crossing worlds and centuries, defeating ignorance and, finally, cruel time...
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There is hardly an American male of my generation who has not at one time or another tried to master...
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Of course, it is possible for any citizen with time to spare, and a canny eye, to work out what is a...
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The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western World. No Fi...
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You're talking to someone who really understands rock music.
TIPPER GORE
For half a century, photography has been the art form of the untalented. Obviously some pictures are...
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As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to ill...
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There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.
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If most men and women were forced to rely upon physical charm to attract lovers, their sexual lives ...
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Democracy is supposed to give you the feeling of choice, like Painkiller X and Painkiller Y. But the...
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Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues an...
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Laughing at someone else is an excellent way of learning how to laugh at oneself; and questioning wh...
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It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imag...
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Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.
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In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you're a great writer, ...
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To a man, ornithologists are tall, slender, and bearded so that they can stand motionless for hours,...
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I'm all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.
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If most men and women were forced to rely upon physical charm to attract lovers, their sexual live...
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Half the American population no longer reads newspapers: plainly, they are the clever half.
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Style is knowing who you are, what to say, and not giving a damn.
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All the other candidates are making speeches about how much they have done for their country, which ...
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Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence t...
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