Each youth betrays considerable anxiety about the wedding night ahead.
GORE VIDALThe Turner Diaries’ is a racist daydream by a former physics teacher writing under the pseudonym Andrew Macdonald.
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Since we have literally targeted our enemies, the Pentagon assumes that, sooner or later, rogues will take out our cities, presumably from spaceships.
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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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It’s odd to meet a rather elderly man who says, ‘I’ve been reading you all my life.’ It makes you feel a slight chill.
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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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Policemen are seldom tried for their crimes, or indeed, held responsible for what they do, which disturbs the peace and causes distress among the orderly.
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I’m a fervent foe of water pollution, whether it is our own Hudson River or Philadelphia’s tap water.
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By 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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For the record, I’m a Second World War veteran and served in the Pacific.
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Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both die.
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Write something, even if it’s just a suicide note.
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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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Envy is the central fact of American life.
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American history has fallen more and more into the hands of academics.
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It is very difficult for a writer of my generation, if he is honest, to pretend indifference to the work of Somerset Maugham. He was always so entirely there.
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What I am is something unbearable for the world of journalism and the world of cliches. I’m a realist.
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