On September 5, 1774, forty-five of the weightiest colonial men formed the First Continental Congress at Philadelphia.
GORE VIDALHaving no contemporaries left means you cannot say, ‘Well, so-and-so will like this,’ which you do when you’re younger. You realize there is no so-and-so anymore. You are your own so-and-so. There is a bleak side to it.
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Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.
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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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Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.
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When I say ‘president,’ I still mean Roosevelt – wisely, I think.
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I never wanted to be a writer. I mean, that’s the last thing I wanted.
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Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they’re scraping the top of the barrel.
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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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The United States is a madhouse.
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Americans, in general, are ignorant, bigoted, and deeply unhappy with their declining incomes.
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A friend was surprised to hear me say that there was not one moment of my past that I would like to relive.
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Never have children, only grandchildren.
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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
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A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.
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Having no contemporaries left means you cannot say, ‘Well, so-and-so will like this,’ which you do when you’re younger. You realize there is no so-and-so anymore. You are your own so-and-so. There is a bleak side to it.
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Americans have no idea of the extent of their government’s mischief… the number of military strikes we have made unprovoked, against other countries, since 1947 is more than 250.
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