Corporations must pay tax.
GORE VIDALThe truth about Pearl Harbour is obscured to this day. But it has been much studied.
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Write something, even if it’s just a suicide note.
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Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.
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Every country should have at least one King Farouk.
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Actually, I can’t remember when I was not writing.
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The unfed mind devours itself.
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Certainly ‘The Judgment of Paris’ was the novel in which I found my own voice.
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I’m all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.
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Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.
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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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As the age of television progresses the Reagans will be the rule, not the exception. To be perfect for television is all a President has to be these days.
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The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.
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A racial or religious or tribal identity is a kind of fact.
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I never said I was gay, because I don’t think anyone is.
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As for civil liberties, any one who is not vigilant may one day find himself living, if not in a police state, at least in a police city.
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We’re not a democracy.
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For the record, I’m a Second World War veteran and served in the Pacific.
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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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Until the rise of American advertising, it never occurred to anyone anywhere in the world that the teenager was a captive in a hostile world of adults.
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Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.
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I don’t even read most reviews, unless there is a potential lawsuit on view.
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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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What is in question is a kind of book reviewing which seems to be more and more popular: the loose putting down of opinions as though they were facts, and the treating of facts as though they were opinions.
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I remember the Bond movies when I was a child. They were silent then.
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The first grown-up book that I read on my own was a nineteenth-century edition of ‘Tales from Livy’ that I’d found in my grandfather’s library.
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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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The media can’t get anything straight.
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