I’m not a conspiracy theorist – I’m a conspiracy analyst.
GORE VIDALWhenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.
More Gore Vidal Quotes
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It’s always best to stay out of other people’s divorces. And their civil wars.
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When I say ‘president,’ I still mean Roosevelt – wisely, I think.
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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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After adolescence, if one’s life is sufficiently interesting, the desire to tell oneself stories diminishes.
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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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Washington turned a blind eye to Al-Qaeda.
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He who is last had best laugh.
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There is no such thing as a homosexual or a heterosexual person. There are only homo- or heterosexual acts. Most people are a mixture of impulses if not practices.
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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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I’m all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.
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I don’t even read most reviews, unless there is a potential lawsuit on view.
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I never said I was gay, because I don’t think anyone is.
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It is very difficult for a writer of my generation, if he is honest, to pretend indifference to the work of Somerset Maugham. He was always so entirely there.
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On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.
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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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