Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.
GORE VIDALPrimarily, I am a prose writer with axes to grind, and the theatre is a good place to do the grinding in. I prefer comedy to ‘serious’ drama because I believe one can get the ax sharper on the comedic stone.
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Envy is the central fact of American life.
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By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he’s been bought ten times over.
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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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What other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke?
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Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.
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Does one ever read a politician’s books?
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Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.
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The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.
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We’re not a democracy.
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From April 1775 to July 1776, the undeclared war between England and its American colonies smoldered, flared up, appeared to sputter out… It was hardly, ever, a mass rebellion.
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By the end of World War II, we were the most powerful and least damaged of the great nations. We also had most of the money. America’s hegemony lasted exactly five years.
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All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world.
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I can understand companionship.
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A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.
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As a schoolboy, I read most of Carl Sandburg’s six-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln.
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