Actually, I can’t remember when I was not writing.
GORE VIDALAmericans 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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Jack Kennedy very much enjoyed Fletcher Knebel’s thriller ‘Seven Days in May,’ later a film. The story: a jingo based on the real-life Admiral Arthur Radford plans a military coup to take over the White House.
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Love is not my bag.
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I’m exactly as I appear. There is no warm, lovable person inside. Beneath my cold exterior, once you break the ice, you find cold water.
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If you are a Representative and want to be a Senator, you must be careful not to do anything which might upset the various forces you need to harness to get elected.
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Boys don’t like girls around when they do boy things.
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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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Certainly ‘The Judgment of Paris’ was the novel in which I found my own voice.
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I remember the Bond movies when I was a child. They were silent then.
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A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.
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I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
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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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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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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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Americans, in general, are ignorant, bigoted, and deeply unhappy with their declining incomes.
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Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.
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