Americans, in general, are ignorant, bigoted, and deeply unhappy with their declining incomes.
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.
More Gore Vidal Quotes
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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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Never have children, only grandchildren.
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Each youth betrays considerable anxiety about the wedding night ahead.
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Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.
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I’ve yet to read a memoir by anyone I’ve known at all well that came anywhere near to the truth.
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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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I’m all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.
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The behaviour of President Bush on 11 September certainly gives rise to not unnatural suspicions.
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What is in question is a kind of book reviewing which seems to be more and more popular: the loose putting down of opinions as though they were facts, and the treating of facts as though they were opinions.
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Sex is. There is nothing more to be done about it. Sex builds no roads, writes no novels and sex certainly gives no meaning to anything in life but itself.
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I was like everyone else when Obama was elected – optimistic.
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Why not just eliminate the federal income 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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To invent a war means that you’ve become a wartime president, and you can suspend much if not all of the Bill of Rights.
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One is sorry one could not have taken both branches of the road. But we were not allotted multiple selves.
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