The United States is a madhouse.
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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Write something, even if it’s just a suicide note.
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In the German concentration camps, Jews wore yellow stars while homosexuals wore pink lambdas.
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I was the most famous kid in the United States. That was 1936.
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Temperamentally, I am suspicious of belonging to anything. When I ran for office, I debated seriously whether or not to run as an independent because I was not eager to be saddled with the Democratic Party, because any party label is committing.
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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
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One is sorry one could not have taken both branches of the road. But we were not allotted multiple selves.
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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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A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.
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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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Anybody who is stupid enough to want to be remembered deserves to be forgotten right now.
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From April 1775 to July 1776, the undeclared war between England and its American colonies smoldered, flared up, appeared to sputter out… It was hardly, ever, a mass rebellion.
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There is only one party in the United States: the Property party… and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat.
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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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I remember the Bond movies when I was a child. They were silent then.
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I could be a lot happier. I could be the senator from Aerospace taking bribes, and be quite happy.
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