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.
GORE VIDALBy the end of World War II, we were the most powerful and least damaged of the great nations. We also had most of the money. America’s hegemony lasted exactly five years.
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That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers.
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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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I hate nobody.
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That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president.
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The unfed mind devours itself.
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Certainly ‘The Judgment of Paris’ was the novel in which I found my own voice.
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It is always a delicate matter, when a friend or acquaintance becomes president.
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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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Between fourteen and nineteen, I must have begun and abandoned six novels.
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There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.
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All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world.
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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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Every country should have at least one King Farouk.
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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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Like the TV networks, once our government has a hit, it will be repeated over and over again.
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I never wanted to be a writer. I mean, that’s the last thing I wanted.
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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 behaviour of President Bush on 11 September certainly gives rise to not unnatural suspicions.
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Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.
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The American high school graduate is two years behind his English, French or German counterpart; in Alabama, God knows how far behind.
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The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.
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Until very recently, the artist was a magician who did his magic in public view but kept himself and his effects a matter of mystery.
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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 more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.
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In the writing of novels, there is the problem of how to shape a narrative.
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Actually, I can’t remember when I was not writing.
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