Every country should have at least one King Farouk.
GORE VIDALIt 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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Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.
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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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Having no contemporaries left means you cannot say, ‘Well, so-and-so will like this,’ which you do when you’re younger. You realize there is no so-and-so anymore. You are your own so-and-so. There is a bleak side to it.
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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 was raised in the Washington household of my grandfather Senator Thomas P. Gore of Oklahoma, and have known politicians intimately all my life.
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Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made.
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A friend was surprised to hear me say that there was not one moment of my past that I would like to relive.
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Policemen are seldom tried for their crimes, or indeed, held responsible for what they do, which disturbs the peace and causes distress among the orderly.
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I never wanted to be a writer. I mean, that’s the last thing I wanted.
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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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While campaigning, I got to know many high-school teachers, and let me say that the good ones are the unsung heroes of our society, and the bad ones are the gravediggers.
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Both Marx and Christ agree that in this life, a right action is consideration for the welfare of others.
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What is in question is a kind of book reviewing which seems to be more and more popular: the loose putting down of opinions as though they were facts, and the treating of facts as though they were opinions.
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I’m not paranoid, no. I’m different in that I have enemies. Very real ones.
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The United States was founded by the brightest people in the country – and we haven’t seen them since.
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