Why not just eliminate the federal income tax?
GORE VIDALAnybody who is stupid enough to want to be remembered deserves to be forgotten right now.
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A friend was surprised to hear me say that there was not one moment of my past that I would like to relive.
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In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you’re a great writer, you must say that you are.
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Primarily, I am a prose writer with axes to grind, and the theatre is a good place to do the grinding in. I prefer comedy to ‘serious’ drama because I believe one can get the ax sharper on the comedic stone.
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I’m not paranoid, no. I’m different in that I have enemies. Very real ones.
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Corporations must pay tax.
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Never have children, only grandchildren.
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Everything’s wrong on Wikipedia.
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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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I never said I was gay, because I don’t think anyone is.
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There is only one party in the United States: the Property party… and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat.
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What the police in their ignorance have not figured out is that they have lost all credibility since World War II. They are sort of parasites on the fringe of society and do no particular good for anyone except possibly themselves.
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I’m a fervent foe of water pollution, whether it is our own Hudson River or Philadelphia’s tap water.
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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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Gossip is conversation about people.
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I know a lot of the Annapolis breed.
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