The Pentagon talks about our power to ‘overkill’ Russia ten times, twenty times, perhaps forty-eight times. For my tax money, it is sufficient to overkill them once.
GORE VIDALEnvy is the central fact of American life.
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I hate nobody.
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We are pleased to dismiss politics as entirely corrupt, if not financially, intellectually.
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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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What other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke?
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The human race is plainly nothing in eternity, but to us, in time, it is everything and ought not to die.
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I am only at home in the present.
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All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world.
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On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.
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In the writing of novels, there is the problem of how to shape a narrative.
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Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they’re scraping the top of the barrel.
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Gossip is conversation about people.
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Corporations must pay tax.
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It’s always best to stay out of other people’s divorces. And their civil wars.
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I am a novelist turned temporary adventurer, and I chose to write television, movies and plays for much the same reason that Henry Morgan selected the Spanish Main for his peculiar – and not dissimilar – sphere of operations.
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Primarily, 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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