In classical times, it was a capital offense to speculate upon the hour of a king’s death or upon the identity of his successor.
GORE VIDALWhat I am is something unbearable for the world of journalism and the world of cliches. I’m a realist.
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Corporations must pay tax.
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Washington turned a blind eye to Al-Qaeda.
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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.
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Envy is the central fact of American life.
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Certainly ‘The Judgment of Paris’ was the novel in which I found my own voice.
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There is only one party in the United States: the Property party… and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat.
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It’s always best to stay out of other people’s divorces. And their civil wars.
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A racial or religious or tribal identity is a kind of fact.
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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.
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As for civil liberties, any one who is not vigilant may one day find himself living, if not in a police state, at least in a police city.
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Some have deplored Lincoln’s indifference to Christianity. But it was not religion, it was religiosity that put him off.
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I can understand companionship.
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I am only at home in the present.
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On September 5, 1774, forty-five of the weightiest colonial men formed the First Continental Congress at Philadelphia.
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If you are a Representative and want to be a Senator, you must be careful not to do anything which might upset the various forces you need to harness to get elected.
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