Sex is. There is nothing more to be done about it. Sex builds no roads, writes no novels and sex certainly gives no meaning to anything in life but itself.
GORE VIDALAs societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.
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I think I have a normal threshold of anger, but it’s true that I am, by nature, belligerent.
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As the age of television progresses the Reagans will be the rule, not the exception. To be perfect for television is all a President has to be these days.
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I’m all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.
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In the writing of novels, there is the problem of how to shape a narrative.
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Write something, even if it’s just a suicide note.
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Boys don’t like girls around when they do boy things.
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I am only at home in the present.
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What I am is something unbearable for the world of journalism and the world of cliches. I’m a realist.
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I never wanted to be a writer. I mean, that’s the last thing I wanted.
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The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.
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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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What the police in their ignorance have not figured out is that they have lost all credibility since World War II. They are sort of parasites on the fringe of society and do no particular good for anyone except possibly themselves.
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The United States is a madhouse.
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Of all recent presidents, Clinton was expected to behave the most sensibly in economic matters. He understood how the economy works. But because he had used various dodges to stay out of the Vietnam War, he came to office ill at ease with the military.
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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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