I’m always an optimist!
GORE VIDALTo preserve the human race, it is now necessary to reorganize society. To this end, an Authority must be created with the power to control human population, to redistribute food, to purify air, water, soil, to re-pattern the cities.
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I can understand companionship.
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The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.
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We must declare ourselves, become known; allow the world to discover this subterranean life of ours which connects kings and farm boys, artists and clerks. Let them see that the important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.
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What the police in their ignorance have not figured out is that they have lost all credibility since World War II. They are sort of parasites on the fringe of society and do no particular good for anyone except possibly themselves.
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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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The only thing that I react really violently to is being misquoted.
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He who is last had best laugh.
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I hate nobody.
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Envy is the central fact of American life.
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I remember the Bond movies when I was a child. They were silent then.
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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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I never said I was gay, because I don’t think anyone is.
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In the writing of novels, there is the problem of how to shape a narrative.
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After adolescence, if one’s life is sufficiently interesting, the desire to tell oneself stories diminishes.
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The media can’t get anything straight.
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