In the German concentration camps, Jews wore yellow stars while homosexuals wore pink lambdas.
GORE VIDALThere 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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Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.
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All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world.
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Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.
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The United States is the only civilized country in the world to class its teachers at the bottom of the social scale.
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Americans have no idea of the extent of their government’s mischief… the number of military strikes we have made unprovoked, against other countries, since 1947 is more than 250.
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Never have children, only grandchildren.
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Baseball is the favorite American sport because it’s so slow. Any idiot can follow it. And just about any idiot can play it.
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We are pleased to dismiss politics as entirely corrupt, if not financially, intellectually.
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I’m all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.
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Remember, I’m West Point, where I was born. My father went there.
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It is true, as Sartre once wrote, referring to French Army atrocities in Algeria, that the real tragedy in our time is that any of us can be, interchangeably, victim or torturer.
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Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.
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Between fourteen and nineteen, I must have begun and abandoned six novels.
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It is essential to naturalist doctrine that literature, to be good, must, finally, be the author’s experience worked out literally.
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A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.
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