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 VIDALThe more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.
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I can understand companionship.
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The unfed mind devours itself.
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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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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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Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.
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The Pentagon talks about our power to ‘overkill’ Russia ten times, twenty times, perhaps forty-eight times. For my tax money, it is sufficient to overkill them once.
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The United States is the only civilized country in the world to class its teachers at the bottom of the social scale.
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I’m all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.
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While campaigning, I got to know many high-school teachers, and let me say that the good ones are the unsung heroes of our society, and the bad ones are the gravediggers.
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I’m not a conspiracy theorist – I’m a conspiracy analyst.
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It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true.
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Each youth betrays considerable anxiety about the wedding night ahead.
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There is only one party in the United States: the Property party… and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat.
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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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I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
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