I hate nobody.
GORE VIDALBy the end of World War II, we were the most powerful and least damaged of the great nations. We also had most of the money. America’s hegemony lasted exactly five years.
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I’m all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.
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Until the rise of American advertising, it never occurred to anyone anywhere in the world that the teenager was a captive in a hostile world of adults.
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I know a lot of the Annapolis breed.
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What I like least about myself is my belligerence.
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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 was the most famous kid in the United States. That was 1936.
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Baseball is the favorite American sport because it’s so slow. Any idiot can follow it. And just about any idiot can play it.
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The media can’t get anything straight.
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Write something, even if it’s just a suicide note.
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In the writing of novels, there is the problem of how to shape a narrative.
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In the German concentration camps, Jews wore yellow stars while homosexuals wore pink lambdas.
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Anybody who is stupid enough to want to be remembered deserves to be forgotten right now.
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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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While campaigning, I got to know many high-school teachers, and let me say that the good ones are the unsung heroes of our society, and the bad ones are the gravediggers.
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The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.
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