I’ve yet to read a memoir by anyone I’ve known at all well that came anywhere near to the truth.
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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I could be a lot happier. I could be the senator from Aerospace taking bribes, and be quite happy.
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I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
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When I say ‘president,’ I still mean Roosevelt – wisely, I think.
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Does one ever read a politician’s books?
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What other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke?
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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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I can understand companionship.
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Corporations must pay tax.
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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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A friend was surprised to hear me say that there was not one moment of my past that I would like to relive.
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You cannot deprive somebody of life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, because that is a right – constitutional right.
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At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation and prejudice.
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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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We’re not a democracy.
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That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers.
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