The Turner Diaries’ is a racist daydream by a former physics teacher writing under the pseudonym Andrew Macdonald.
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The media can’t get anything straight.
Gore VidalGore Vidal I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
Gore VidalGore Vidal Like the TV networks, once our government has a hit, it will be repeated over and over again.
Gore VidalGore Vidal Now you have people in Washington who have no interest in the country at all. They’re interested in their companies, their corporations grabbing Caspian oil.
Gore VidalGore Vidal 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.
Gore VidalGore Vidal 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.
Gore VidalGore Vidal I’ve yet to read a memoir by anyone I’ve known at all well that came anywhere near to the truth.
Gore VidalGore Vidal What the police in their ignorance have not figured out is that they have lost all credibility since World War II. They are sort of parasites on the fringe of society and do no particular good for anyone except possibly themselves.
Gore VidalGore Vidal Boys don’t like girls around when they do boy things.
Gore VidalGore Vidal American history has fallen more and more into the hands of academics.
Gore VidalGore Vidal I was raised in the Washington household of my grandfather Senator Thomas P. Gore of Oklahoma, and have known politicians intimately all my life.
Gore VidalGore Vidal 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 VidalGore Vidal Some have deplored Lincoln’s indifference to Christianity. But it was not religion, it was religiosity that put him off.
Gore VidalGore Vidal To 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.
Gore VidalGore Vidal All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.
Gore VidalGore Vidal Never have children, only grandchildren.
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