I know a lot of the Annapolis breed.
GORE VIDALThe only thing that I react really violently to is being misquoted.
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The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.
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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 cannot remember when I was not fascinated by Henry Adams.
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I’m not a conspiracy theorist – I’m a conspiracy analyst.
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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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Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.
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All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world.
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Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.
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There’s a lot to be said for being nouveau riche, and the Reagans mean to say it all.
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Europe began as the relatively empty, uncivilized Wild West of Asia; then the Western Hemisphere became the Wild West of Europe. Now the sun has set in our West and risen once more in the East.
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I’m always an optimist!
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The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.
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The United States was founded by the brightest people in the country – and we haven’t seen them since.
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The unfed mind devours itself.
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Until the rise of American advertising, it never occurred to anyone anywhere in the world that the teenager was a captive in a hostile world of adults.
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