Does one ever read a politician’s books?
GORE VIDALBetween fourteen and nineteen, I must have begun and abandoned six novels.
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Everything’s wrong on Wikipedia.
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The United States is the only civilized country in the world to class its teachers at the bottom of the social scale.
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The unfed mind devours itself.
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A racial or religious or tribal identity is a kind of fact.
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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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Like the TV networks, once our government has a hit, it will be repeated over and over again.
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In the German concentration camps, Jews wore yellow stars while homosexuals wore pink lambdas.
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Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they’re scraping the top of the barrel.
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It’s odd to meet a rather elderly man who says, ‘I’ve been reading you all my life.’ It makes you feel a slight chill.
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I remember the Bond movies when I was a child. They were silent then.
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To get people to do needed things is the perennial hard task of government, not to mention of religion and philosophy.
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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 human race is plainly nothing in eternity, but to us, in time, it is everything and ought not to die.
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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.
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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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