Love is not my bag.
GORE VIDALSome 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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I could be a lot happier. I could be the senator from Aerospace taking bribes, and be quite happy.
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Fifty percent of people won’t vote, and fifty percent don’t read newspapers. I hope it’s the same fifty percent.
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When I say ‘president,’ I still mean Roosevelt – wisely, I think.
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In writing and politicking, it’s best not to think about it, just do it.
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Since we have literally targeted our enemies, the Pentagon assumes that, sooner or later, rogues will take out our cities, presumably from spaceships.
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Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.
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Jack Kennedy very much enjoyed Fletcher Knebel’s thriller ‘Seven Days in May,’ later a film. The story: a jingo based on the real-life Admiral Arthur Radford plans a military coup to take over the White House.
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That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers.
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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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Some have deplored Lincoln’s indifference to Christianity. But it was not religion, it was religiosity that put him off.
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Envy is the central fact of American life.
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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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The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.
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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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The United States is a madhouse.
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The truth about Pearl Harbour is obscured to this day. But it has been much studied.
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I can understand companionship.
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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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Gossip is conversation about people.
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Both Marx and Christ agree that in this life, a right action is consideration for the welfare of others.
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The United States was founded by the brightest people in the country – and we haven’t seen them since.
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To invent a war means that you’ve become a wartime president, and you can suspend much if not all of the Bill of Rights.
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Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.
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History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true.
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The unfed mind devours itself.
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