For the record, I’m a Second World War veteran and served in the Pacific.
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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The media can’t get anything straight.
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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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You cannot deprive somebody of life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, because that is a right – constitutional right.
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It is always a delicate matter, when a friend or acquaintance becomes president.
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I am told the Cheney-Bush team dislikes their junta being compared to the Nazis. If they ceased behaving like Nazis, no comparison would come to mind.
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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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Both Marx and Christ agree that in this life, a right action is consideration for the welfare of others.
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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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There is no such thing as a homosexual or a heterosexual person. There are only homo- or heterosexual acts. Most people are a mixture of impulses if not practices.
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To get people to do needed things is the perennial hard task of government, not to mention of religion and philosophy.
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I never wanted to be a writer. I mean, that’s the last thing I wanted.
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Each youth betrays considerable anxiety about the wedding night ahead.
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Fifty percent of people won’t vote, and fifty percent don’t read newspapers. I hope it’s the same fifty percent.
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Love is not my bag.
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World War II made prosperous the United States, which had been undergoing a depression for a dozen years, and made very rich those magnates and their managers who govern the republic – with many a wink – in the people’s name.
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Envy is the central fact of American life.
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I think I have a normal threshold of anger, but it’s true that I am, by nature, belligerent.
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TV news is not very instructive.
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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
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Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.
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The human race is plainly nothing in eternity, but to us, in time, it is everything and ought not to die.
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Never have children, only grandchildren.
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Democracy is supposed to give you the feeling of choice, like Painkiller X and Painkiller Y. But they’re both just aspirin.
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Until the rise of American advertising, it never occurred to anyone anywhere in the world that the teenager was a captive in a hostile world of adults.
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Everything’s wrong on Wikipedia.
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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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