History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true.
GORE VIDALGossip is conversation about people.
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Democracy is supposed to give you the feeling of choice, like Painkiller X and Painkiller Y. But they’re both just aspirin.
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You cannot deprive somebody of life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, because that is a right – constitutional right.
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I am only at home in the present.
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I’m all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.
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Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.
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World War II made prosperous the United States, which had been undergoing a depression for a dozen years, and made very rich those magnates and their managers who govern the republic – with many a wink – in the people’s name.
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The only thing that I react really violently to is being misquoted.
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There is no such thing as a homosexual or a heterosexual person. There are only homo- or heterosexual acts. Most people are a mixture of impulses if not practices.
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A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.
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To invent a war means that you’ve become a wartime president, and you can suspend much if not all of the Bill of Rights.
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All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.
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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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In character, as it were, the writer settles for an impression of what happened rather than creating the sense of the thing happening.
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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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I think I have a normal threshold of anger, but it’s true that I am, by nature, belligerent.
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