I’m not paranoid, no. I’m different in that I have enemies. Very real ones.
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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As for my support for Obama, remember that I was brought up in Washington. It was an all-black city when I was a kid. And I’ve always been very pro-African-American – or whatever phrase we now use.
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The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.
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The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity – much less dissent.
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Some of my father’s fellow West Pointers once asked him why I turned out so well, his secret in raising me. And he said, ‘I never gave him any advice, and he never asked for any.’ We agreed on nothing, but we never quarreled once.
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I’m always an optimist!
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All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world.
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I remember the Bond movies when I was a child. They were silent then.
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The Turner Diaries’ is a racist daydream by a former physics teacher writing under the pseudonym Andrew Macdonald.
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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
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It is very difficult for a writer of my generation, if he is honest, to pretend indifference to the work of Somerset Maugham. He was always so entirely there.
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Remember, I’m West Point, where I was born. My father went there.
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The greatest pleasure when I started making money was not buying cars or yachts but finding myself able to have as many freshly typed drafts as possible.
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What other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke?
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The media can’t get anything straight.
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For the record, I’m a Second World War veteran and served in the Pacific.
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