I can understand companionship.
GORE VIDALRemember, I’m West Point, where I was born. My father went there.
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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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Corporations must pay tax.
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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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To get people to do needed things is the perennial hard task of government, not to mention of religion and philosophy.
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I’m not paranoid, no. I’m different in that I have enemies. Very real ones.
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History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true.
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Write something, even if it’s just a suicide note.
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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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Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they’re scraping the top of the barrel.
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Since we have literally targeted our enemies, the Pentagon assumes that, sooner or later, rogues will take out our cities, presumably from spaceships.
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Baseball is the favorite American sport because it’s so slow. Any idiot can follow it. And just about any idiot can play it.
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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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There’s a lot to be said for being nouveau riche, and the Reagans mean to say it all.
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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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That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president.
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