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The greatest pleasure when I started making money was not buying c

The greatest pleasure when I started making money was not buying cars or yachts but finding myself able to have as many freshly typed drafts as possible. – Gore Vidal

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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. – Gore Vidal

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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. – Gore Vidal

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To a man, ornithologists are tall, slender, and bearded so that they can stand motionless for hours, imitating kindly trees, as they watch for birds. – Gore Vidal

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Im lucky because my dad taught me to be frugal and save. And thats important because I want to know that I dont have to take an acting job for two or three years if I dont want to and that Ill still be able to make my house and car payments and buy food for my dogs. – Ashley Greene

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The courts cannot garnish a fathers salary, nor freeze his account, nor seize his property on behalf of his children, in our society. Apparently this is because a kid is not a car or a couch or a boat. – June Jordan

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In real life, one of my friends was killed in a car accident during our sophomore year. – Beverley Mitchell

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