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...because academics everywhere are forever attacking one another, and I had long since learned that one must never believe what a teacher says of another.

— Gore Vidal Julian (1964)

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Are we a dream in the mind of a deity, or is each of us a separate dreamer, evoking his own reality?

Julian (1964)

The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.

Homage to Daniel Shays : Collected Essays (1972)

Never pass up a chance to have sex or appear on television.

A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.

They say to know oneself is to know all there is that is human. But of course no one can ever know himself. Nothing human is finally calculable; even to ourselves we are strange.

Julian (1964)

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