Envy is the central fact of American life.
GORE VIDALIn the German concentration camps, Jews wore yellow stars while homosexuals wore pink lambdas.
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In essence, Clinton’s Anti-Terrorism Act would set up a national police force, over the long-dead bodies of the founders.
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I am told the Cheney-Bush team dislikes their junta being compared to the Nazis. If they ceased behaving like Nazis, no comparison would come to mind.
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In the writing of novels, there is the problem of how to shape a narrative.
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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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Corporations must pay tax.
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I was raised in the Washington household of my grandfather Senator Thomas P. Gore of Oklahoma, and have known politicians intimately all my life.
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I never wanted to be a writer. I mean, that’s the last thing I wanted.
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Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.
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Baseball is the favorite American sport because it’s so slow. Any idiot can follow it. And just about any idiot can play it.
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In the German concentration camps, Jews wore yellow stars while homosexuals wore pink lambdas.
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I remember the Bond movies when I was a child. They were silent then.
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I was the most famous kid in the United States. That was 1936.
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Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.
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After adolescence, if one’s life is sufficiently interesting, the desire to tell oneself stories diminishes.
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I’m all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.
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