I’m always an optimist!
GORE VIDALEnvy is the central fact of American life.
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We are pleased to dismiss politics as entirely corrupt, if not financially, intellectually.
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At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation and prejudice.
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Ayn Rand is a rhetorician who writes novels I have never been able to read.
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The American high school graduate is two years behind his English, French or German counterpart; in Alabama, God knows how far behind.
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That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers.
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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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Like the TV networks, once our government has a hit, it will be repeated over and over again.
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We must declare ourselves, become known; allow the world to discover this subterranean life of ours which connects kings and farm boys, artists and clerks. Let them see that the important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.
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The United States is a madhouse.
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Fifty percent of people won’t vote, and fifty percent don’t read newspapers. I hope it’s the same fifty percent.
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Never have children, only grandchildren.
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The only thing that I react really violently to is being misquoted.
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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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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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I can understand companionship.
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