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.
GORE VIDALWe are pleased to dismiss politics as entirely corrupt, if not financially, intellectually.
More Gore Vidal Quotes
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As a schoolboy, I read most of Carl Sandburg’s six-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln.
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On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.
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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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Everything’s wrong on Wikipedia.
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Like the TV networks, once our government has a hit, it will be repeated over and over again.
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The media can’t get anything straight.
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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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I hate nobody.
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To invent a war means that you’ve become a wartime president, and you can suspend much if not all of the Bill of Rights.
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There 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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I cannot remember when I was not fascinated by Henry Adams.
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Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.
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We are pleased to dismiss politics as entirely corrupt, if not financially, intellectually.
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History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true.
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After adolescence, if one’s life is sufficiently interesting, the desire to tell oneself stories diminishes.
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