American history has fallen more and more into the hands of academics.
GORE VIDALOur form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.
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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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I’m not paranoid, no. I’m different in that I have enemies. Very real ones.
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Envy is the central fact of American life.
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Never have children, only grandchildren.
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Some have deplored Lincoln’s indifference to Christianity. But it was not religion, it was religiosity that put him off.
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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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Actually, I can’t remember when I was not writing.
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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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He who is last had best laugh.
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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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I know a lot of the Annapolis breed.
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We are pleased to dismiss politics as entirely corrupt, if not financially, intellectually.
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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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What I like least about myself is my belligerence.
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For the record, I’m a Second World War veteran and served in the Pacific.
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