I think I have a normal threshold of anger, but it’s true that I am, by nature, belligerent.
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More Gore Vidal Quotes
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Between fourteen and nineteen, I must have begun and abandoned six novels.
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I can understand companionship.
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The only thing that I react really violently to is being misquoted.
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Americans, in general, are ignorant, bigoted, and deeply unhappy with their declining incomes.
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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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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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Some have deplored Lincoln’s indifference to Christianity. But it was not religion, it was religiosity that put him off.
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I know a lot of the Annapolis breed.
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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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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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Why not just eliminate the federal income tax?
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What the police in their ignorance have not figured out is that they have lost all credibility since World War II. They are sort of parasites on the fringe of society and do no particular good for anyone except possibly themselves.
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At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation and prejudice.
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Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.
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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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