I can’t name three first-rate literary critics in the United States. I’m told there are a few hidden away at universities, but they don’t print them in ‘The New York Times.’
GORE VIDALI never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
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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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Boys don’t like girls around when they do boy things.
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Ayn Rand is a rhetorician who writes novels I have never been able to read.
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The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.
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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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I could be a lot happier. I could be the senator from Aerospace taking bribes, and be quite happy.
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The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.
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Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.
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The Pentagon talks about our power to ‘overkill’ Russia ten times, twenty times, perhaps forty-eight times. For my tax money, it is sufficient to overkill them once.
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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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We are pleased to dismiss politics as entirely corrupt, if not financially, intellectually.
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I remember the Bond movies when I was a child. They were silent then.
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Remember, I’m West Point, where I was born. My father went there.
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One is sorry one could not have taken both branches of the road. But we were not allotted multiple selves.
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There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.
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