I remember the Bond movies when I was a child. They were silent then.
GORE VIDALThe unfed mind devours itself.
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Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both die.
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The United States is a madhouse.
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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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Europe began as the relatively empty, uncivilized Wild West of Asia; then the Western Hemisphere became the Wild West of Europe. Now the sun has set in our West and risen once more in the East.
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Americans have no idea of the extent of their government’s mischief… the number of military strikes we have made unprovoked, against other countries, since 1947 is more than 250.
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By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he’s been bought ten times over.
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In the German concentration camps, Jews wore yellow stars while homosexuals wore pink lambdas.
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Until the rise of American advertising, it never occurred to anyone anywhere in the world that the teenager was a captive in a hostile world of adults.
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I am not, at heart, a playwright.
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Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.
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Actually, I can’t remember when I was not writing.
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Ayn Rand is a rhetorician who writes novels I have never been able to read.
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I know a lot of the Annapolis breed.
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There is no such thing as a homosexual or a heterosexual person. There are only homo- or heterosexual acts. Most people are a mixture of impulses if not practices.
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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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In character, as it were, the writer settles for an impression of what happened rather than creating the sense of the thing happening.
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I never said I was gay, because I don’t think anyone is.
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The United States is the only civilized country in the world to class its teachers at the bottom of the social scale.
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To preserve the human race, it is now necessary to reorganize society. To this end, an Authority must be created with the power to control human population, to redistribute food, to purify air, water, soil, to re-pattern the cities.
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What I am is something unbearable for the world of journalism and the world of cliches. I’m a realist.
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Write something, even if it’s just a suicide note.
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There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.
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I’m all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.
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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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Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.
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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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