Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.
GORE VIDALJews, 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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The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.
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Between fourteen and nineteen, I must have begun and abandoned six novels.
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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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Nearly everyone who goes into a campaign is not only eager for the place he hopes to fill but for what might come after.
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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 think I have a normal threshold of anger, but it’s true that I am, by nature, belligerent.
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I hate nobody.
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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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There’s a lot to be said for being nouveau riche, and the Reagans mean to say it all.
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It’s always best to stay out of other people’s divorces. And their civil wars.
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In the German concentration camps, Jews wore yellow stars while homosexuals wore pink lambdas.
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I know a lot of the Annapolis breed.
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Never have children, only grandchildren.
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What I like least about myself is my belligerence.
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Democracy is supposed to give you the feeling of choice, like Painkiller X and Painkiller Y. But they’re both just aspirin.
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