From April 1775 to July 1776, the undeclared war between England and its American colonies smoldered, flared up, appeared to sputter out… It was hardly, ever, a mass rebellion.
GORE VIDALAll children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.
More Gore Vidal Quotes
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I’m not a conspiracy theorist – I’m a conspiracy analyst.
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Since we have literally targeted our enemies, the Pentagon assumes that, sooner or later, rogues will take out our cities, presumably from spaceships.
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Never have children, only grandchildren.
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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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It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true.
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In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you’re a great writer, you must say that you are.
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I’m not paranoid, no. I’m different in that I have enemies. Very real ones.
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Europe began as the relatively empty, uncivilized Wild West of Asia; then the Western Hemisphere became the Wild West of Europe. Now the sun has set in our West and risen once more in the East.
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Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.
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It’s always best to stay out of other people’s divorces. And their civil wars.
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The truth about Pearl Harbour is obscured to this day. But it has been much studied.
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Each youth betrays considerable anxiety about the wedding night ahead.
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A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.
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The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity – much less dissent.
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Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both die.
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