All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world.
GORE VIDALA friend was surprised to hear me say that there was not one moment of my past that I would like to relive.
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Boys don’t like girls around when they do boy things.
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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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I’m a fervent foe of water pollution, whether it is our own Hudson River or Philadelphia’s tap water.
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In character, as it were, the writer settles for an impression of what happened rather than creating the sense of the thing happening.
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Americans, in general, are ignorant, bigoted, and deeply unhappy with their declining incomes.
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The United States is a madhouse.
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There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.
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The first grown-up book that I read on my own was a nineteenth-century edition of ‘Tales from Livy’ that I’d found in my grandfather’s library.
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Americans have no idea of the extent of their government’s mischief… the number of military strikes we have made unprovoked, against other countries, since 1947 is more than 250.
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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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Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.
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It’s always best to stay out of other people’s divorces. And their civil wars.
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I was the most famous kid in the United States. That was 1936.
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I never wanted to be a writer. I mean, that’s the last thing I wanted.
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If you are a Representative and want to be a Senator, you must be careful not to do anything which might upset the various forces you need to harness to get elected.
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I never said I was gay, because I don’t think anyone is.
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A friend was surprised to hear me say that there was not one moment of my past that I would like to relive.
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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.
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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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A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.
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The Turner Diaries’ is a racist daydream by a former physics teacher writing under the pseudonym Andrew Macdonald.
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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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Actually, I can’t remember when I was not writing.
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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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I’m not paranoid, no. I’m different in that I have enemies. Very real ones.
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The only thing that I react really violently to is being misquoted.
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