Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.
GORE VIDALThe 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.
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Actually, I can’t remember when I was not writing.
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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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The media can’t get anything straight.
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We are pleased to dismiss politics as entirely corrupt, if not financially, intellectually.
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I was like everyone else when Obama was elected – optimistic.
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Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.
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It’s odd to meet a rather elderly man who says, ‘I’ve been reading you all my life.’ It makes you feel a slight chill.
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The greatest pleasure when I started making money was not buying cars or yachts but finding myself able to have as many freshly typed drafts as possible.
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World War II made prosperous the United States, which had been undergoing a depression for a dozen years, and made very rich those magnates and their managers who govern the republic – with many a wink – in the people’s name.
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Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.
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You cannot deprive somebody of life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, because that is a right – constitutional right.
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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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To a man, ornithologists are tall, slender, and bearded so that they can stand motionless for hours, imitating kindly trees, as they watch for birds.
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The only thing that I react really violently to is being misquoted.
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Ayn Rand is a rhetorician who writes novels I have never been able to read.
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