Since we have literally targeted our enemies, the Pentagon assumes that, sooner or later, rogues will take out our cities, presumably from spaceships.
GORE VIDALWhat other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke?
More Gore Vidal Quotes
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Europe began as the relatively empty, uncivilized Wild West of Asia; then the Western Hemisphere became the Wild West of Europe. Now the sun has set in our West and risen once more in the East.
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The media can’t get anything straight.
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Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.
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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.
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Each youth betrays considerable anxiety about the wedding night ahead.
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What other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke?
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I am a novelist turned temporary adventurer, and I chose to write television, movies and plays for much the same reason that Henry Morgan selected the Spanish Main for his peculiar – and not dissimilar – sphere of operations.
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From April 1775 to July 1776, the undeclared war between England and its American colonies smoldered, flared up, appeared to sputter out… It was hardly, ever, a mass rebellion.
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Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both die.
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Both Marx and Christ agree that in this life, a right action is consideration for the welfare of others.
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The unfed mind devours itself.
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Remember, I’m West Point, where I was born. My father went there.
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The Pentagon talks about our power to ‘overkill’ Russia ten times, twenty times, perhaps forty-eight times. For my tax money, it is sufficient to overkill them once.
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The United States is a madhouse.
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Why not just eliminate the federal income tax?
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On September 5, 1774, forty-five of the weightiest colonial men formed the First Continental Congress at Philadelphia.
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The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.
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As for civil liberties, any one who is not vigilant may one day find himself living, if not in a police state, at least in a police city.
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There’s a lot to be said for being nouveau riche, and the Reagans mean to say it all.
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Between fourteen and nineteen, I must have begun and abandoned six novels.
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The truth about Pearl Harbour is obscured to this day. But it has been much studied.
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Washington turned a blind eye to Al-Qaeda.
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All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world.
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I could be a lot happier. I could be the senator from Aerospace taking bribes, and be quite happy.
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Actually, I can’t remember when I was not writing.
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I hate nobody.
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