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.
GORE VIDALIn the German concentration camps, Jews wore yellow stars while homosexuals wore pink lambdas.
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Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.
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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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You cannot deprive somebody of life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, because that is a right – constitutional right.
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I’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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Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.
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I am not, at heart, a playwright.
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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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Now you have people in Washington who have no interest in the country at all. They’re interested in their companies, their corporations grabbing Caspian oil.
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We are pleased to dismiss politics as entirely corrupt, if not financially, intellectually.
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For the record, I’m a Second World War veteran and served in the Pacific.
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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 never wanted to be a writer. I mean, that’s the last thing I wanted.
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What other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke?
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He who is last had best laugh.
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All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.
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