A racial or religious or tribal identity is a kind of fact.
GORE VIDALWhat I like least about myself is my belligerence.
More Gore Vidal Quotes
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Everything’s wrong on Wikipedia.
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A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.
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On September 5, 1774, forty-five of the weightiest colonial men formed the First Continental Congress at Philadelphia.
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I’m not paranoid, no. I’m different in that I have enemies. Very real ones.
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Why not just eliminate the federal income tax?
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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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Envy is the central fact of American life.
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As a schoolboy, I read most of Carl Sandburg’s six-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln.
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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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Certainly ‘The Judgment of Paris’ was the novel in which I found my own voice.
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Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.
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What the police in their ignorance have not figured out is that they have lost all credibility since World War II. They are sort of parasites on the fringe of society and do no particular good for anyone except possibly themselves.
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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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After adolescence, if one’s life is sufficiently interesting, the desire to tell oneself stories diminishes.
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As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.
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