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.
GORE VIDALIn the German concentration camps, Jews wore yellow stars while homosexuals wore pink lambdas.
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Love is not my bag.
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The United States was founded by the brightest people in the country – and we haven’t seen them since.
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A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.
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I’m not paranoid, no. I’m different in that I have enemies. Very real ones.
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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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Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.
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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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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.’
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Temperamentally, I am suspicious of belonging to anything. When I ran for office, I debated seriously whether or not to run as an independent because I was not eager to be saddled with the Democratic Party, because any party label is committing.
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World War II made prosperous the United States, which had been undergoing a depression for a dozen years, and made very rich those magnates and their managers who govern the republic – with many a wink – in the people’s name.
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Never have children, only grandchildren.
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I’m always an optimist!
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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.
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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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The media can’t get anything straight.
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Until the rise of American advertising, it never occurred to anyone anywhere in the world that the teenager was a captive in a hostile world of adults.
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At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation and prejudice.
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A racial or religious or tribal identity is a kind of fact.
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To a man, ornithologists are tall, slender, and bearded so that they can stand motionless for hours, imitating kindly trees, as they watch for birds.
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We are pleased to dismiss politics as entirely corrupt, if not financially, intellectually.
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The first grown-up book that I read on my own was a nineteenth-century edition of ‘Tales from Livy’ that I’d found in my grandfather’s library.
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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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It’s always best to stay out of other people’s divorces. And their civil wars.
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For the record, I’m a Second World War veteran and served in the Pacific.
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Does one ever read a politician’s books?
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Both Marx and Christ agree that in this life, a right action is consideration for the welfare of others.
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