The unfed mind devours itself.
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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I cannot remember when I was not fascinated by Henry Adams.
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Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.
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Remember, I’m West Point, where I was born. My father went there.
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As for my support for Obama, remember that I was brought up in Washington. It was an all-black city when I was a kid. And I’ve always been very pro-African-American – or whatever phrase we now use.
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Envy is the central fact of American life.
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I hate nobody.
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Corporations must pay tax.
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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 never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
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Baseball is the favorite American sport because it’s so slow. Any idiot can follow it. And just about any idiot can play it.
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I was the most famous kid in the United States. That was 1936.
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I’m exactly as I appear. There is no warm, lovable person inside. Beneath my cold exterior, once you break the ice, you find cold water.
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Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.
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The Pentagon talks about our power to ‘overkill’ Russia ten times, twenty times, perhaps forty-eight times. For my tax money, it is sufficient to overkill them once.
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All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.
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