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.
GORE VIDALDemocracy is supposed to give you the feeling of choice, like Painkiller X and Painkiller Y. But they’re both just aspirin.
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Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.
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All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.
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The Turner Diaries’ is a racist daydream by a former physics teacher writing under the pseudonym Andrew Macdonald.
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I remember the Bond movies when I was a child. They were silent then.
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I can’t name three first-rate literary critics in the United States. I’m told there are a few hidden away at universities, but they don’t print them in ‘The New York Times.’
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The media can’t get anything straight.
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Since we have literally targeted our enemies, the Pentagon assumes that, sooner or later, rogues will take out our cities, presumably from spaceships.
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Between fourteen and nineteen, I must have begun and abandoned six novels.
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The truth about Pearl Harbour is obscured to this day. But it has been much studied.
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Jack Kennedy very much enjoyed Fletcher Knebel’s thriller ‘Seven Days in May,’ later a film. The story: a jingo based on the real-life Admiral Arthur Radford plans a military coup to take over the White House.
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My father had lifelong contempt for politicians.
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Write something, even if it’s just a suicide note.
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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 never said I was gay, because I don’t think anyone is.
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Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.
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