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.
GORE VIDALThe Turner Diaries’ is a racist daydream by a former physics teacher writing under the pseudonym Andrew Macdonald.
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I can understand companionship.
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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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The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity – much less dissent.
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Every country should have at least one King Farouk.
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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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I think I have a normal threshold of anger, but it’s true that I am, by nature, belligerent.
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Today’s public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can’t read them either.
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I don’t even read most reviews, unless there is a potential lawsuit on view.
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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’m all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.
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I’m exactly as I appear. There is no warm, lovable person inside. Beneath my cold exterior, once you break the ice, you find cold water.
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Everything’s wrong on Wikipedia.
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There is no such thing as a homosexual or a heterosexual person. There are only homo- or heterosexual acts. Most people are a mixture of impulses if not practices.
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Envy is the central fact of American life.
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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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