Both Marx and Christ agree that in this life, a right action is consideration for the welfare of others.
GORE VIDALI’ve yet to read a memoir by anyone I’ve known at all well that came anywhere near to the truth.
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I’m not a conspiracy theorist – I’m a conspiracy analyst.
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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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Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.
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The United States was founded by the brightest people in the country – and we haven’t seen them since.
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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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All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.
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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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Why not just eliminate the federal income tax?
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Jews, blacks and homosexuals are despised by the Christian and Communist majorities of East and West. Also, as a result of the invention of Israel, Jews can now count on the hatred of the Islamic world.
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Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.
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Some of my father’s fellow West Pointers once asked him why I turned out so well, his secret in raising me. And he said, ‘I never gave him any advice, and he never asked for any.’ We agreed on nothing, but we never quarreled once.
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Temperamentally, I am suspicious of belonging to anything. When I ran for office, I debated seriously whether or not to run as an independent because I was not eager to be saddled with the Democratic Party, because any party label is committing.
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We’re not a democracy.
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I remember the Bond movies when I was a child. They were silent then.
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The United States is a madhouse.
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I’m all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.
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Policemen are seldom tried for their crimes, or indeed, held responsible for what they do, which disturbs the peace and causes distress among the orderly.
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It’s always best to stay out of other people’s divorces. And their civil wars.
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The unfed mind devours itself.
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I can’t name three first-rate literary critics in the United States. I’m told there are a few hidden away at universities, but they don’t print them in ‘The New York Times.’
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Gossip is conversation about people.
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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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I hate nobody.
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In writing and politicking, it’s best not to think about it, just do it.
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Of all recent presidents, Clinton was expected to behave the most sensibly in economic matters. He understood how the economy works. But because he had used various dodges to stay out of the Vietnam War, he came to office ill at ease with the military.
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For the record, I’m a Second World War veteran and served in the Pacific.
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