Corporations must pay tax.
GORE VIDALA racial or religious or tribal identity is a kind of fact.
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I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
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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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In classical times, it was a capital offense to speculate upon the hour of a king’s death or upon the identity of his successor.
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The greatest pleasure when I started making money was not buying cars or yachts but finding myself able to have as many freshly typed drafts as possible.
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I don’t even read most reviews, unless there is a potential lawsuit on view.
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Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.
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Write something, even if it’s just a suicide note.
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Democracy is supposed to give you the feeling of choice, like Painkiller X and Painkiller Y. But they’re both just aspirin.
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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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One is sorry one could not have taken both branches of the road. But we were not allotted multiple selves.
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I’m always an optimist!
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All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.
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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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Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.
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In the German concentration camps, Jews wore yellow stars while homosexuals wore pink lambdas.
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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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Jack Kennedy very much enjoyed Fletcher Knebel’s thriller ‘Seven Days in May,’ later a film. The story: a jingo based on the real-life Admiral Arthur Radford plans a military coup to take over the White House.
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World War II made prosperous the United States, which had been undergoing a depression for a dozen years, and made very rich those magnates and their managers who govern the republic – with many a wink – in the people’s name.
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After adolescence, if one’s life is sufficiently interesting, the desire to tell oneself stories diminishes.
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I never said I was gay, because I don’t think anyone is.
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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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When I say ‘president,’ I still mean Roosevelt – wisely, I think.
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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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Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.
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I’m all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.
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Since we have literally targeted our enemies, the Pentagon assumes that, sooner or later, rogues will take out our cities, presumably from spaceships.
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