Europe began as the relatively empty, uncivilized Wild West of Asia; then the Western Hemisphere became the Wild West of Europe. Now the sun has set in our West and risen once more in the East.
GORE VIDALEurope began as the relatively empty, uncivilized Wild West of Asia; then the Western Hemisphere became the Wild West of Europe. Now the sun has set in our West and risen once more in the East.
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From April 1775 to July 1776, the undeclared war between England and its American colonies smoldered, flared up, appeared to sputter out… It was hardly, ever, a mass rebellion.
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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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On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.
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I never said I was gay, because I don’t think anyone is.
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As the age of television progresses the Reagans will be the rule, not the exception. To be perfect for television is all a President has to be these days.
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Obama just came swiftly out of nowhere, which was a relief to those of us who care about the Republic, and at first he seemed a very good thing.
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I hate nobody.
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Actually, I can’t remember when I was not writing.
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World War II made prosperous the United States, which had been undergoing a depression for a dozen years, and made very rich those magnates and their managers who govern the republic – with many a wink – in the people’s name.
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When I say ‘president,’ I still mean Roosevelt – wisely, I think.
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In the German concentration camps, Jews wore yellow stars while homosexuals wore pink lambdas.
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Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.
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At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation and prejudice.
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By 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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It is essential to naturalist doctrine that literature, to be good, must, finally, be the author’s experience worked out literally.
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