It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
GORE VIDALWhile 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 can understand companionship.
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What I am is something unbearable for the world of journalism and the world of cliches. I’m a realist.
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Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.
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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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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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All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world.
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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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It is always a delicate matter, when a friend or acquaintance becomes president.
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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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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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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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A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.
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Temperamentally, I am suspicious of belonging to anything. When I ran for office, I debated seriously whether or not to run as an independent because I was not eager to be saddled with the Democratic Party, because any party label is committing.
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Nearly everyone who goes into a campaign is not only eager for the place he hopes to fill but for what might come after.
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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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