What other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke?
GORE VIDALFifty percent of people won’t vote, and fifty percent don’t read newspapers. I hope it’s the same fifty percent.
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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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I hate nobody.
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Americans have no idea of the extent of their government’s mischief… the number of military strikes we have made unprovoked, against other countries, since 1947 is more than 250.
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I’m always an optimist!
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I remember the Bond movies when I was a child. They were silent then.
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We are pleased to dismiss politics as entirely corrupt, if not financially, intellectually.
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The American high school graduate is two years behind his English, French or German counterpart; in Alabama, God knows how far behind.
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What I am is something unbearable for the world of journalism and the world of cliches. I’m a realist.
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When I say ‘president,’ I still mean Roosevelt – wisely, I think.
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Nearly everyone who goes into a campaign is not only eager for the place he hopes to fill but for what might come after.
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I never said I was gay, because I don’t think anyone is.
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I am told the Cheney-Bush team dislikes their junta being compared to the Nazis. If they ceased behaving like Nazis, no comparison would come to mind.
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Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.
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Sex is. There is nothing more to be done about it. Sex builds no roads, writes no novels and sex certainly gives no meaning to anything in life but itself.
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It is always a delicate matter, when a friend or acquaintance becomes president.
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