Democracy is supposed to give you the feeling of choice, like Painkiller X and Painkiller Y. But they’re both just aspirin.
GORE VIDALTemperamentally, I am suspicious of belonging to anything. When I ran for office, I debated seriously whether or not to run as an independent because I was not eager to be saddled with the Democratic Party, because any party label is committing.
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I’m not a conspiracy theorist – I’m a conspiracy analyst.
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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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I am told the Cheney-Bush team dislikes their junta being compared to the Nazis. If they ceased behaving like Nazis, no comparison would come to mind.
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As a schoolboy, I read most of Carl Sandburg’s six-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln.
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There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.
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I am only at home in the present.
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Today’s public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can’t read them either.
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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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Americans have no idea of the extent of their government’s mischief… the number of military strikes we have made unprovoked, against other countries, since 1947 is more than 250.
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I could be a lot happier. I could be the senator from Aerospace taking bribes, and be quite happy.
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What other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke?
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I hate nobody.
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I’ve yet to read a memoir by anyone I’ve known at all well that came anywhere near to the truth.
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Does one ever read a politician’s books?
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A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.
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