I hate nobody.
GORE VIDALAyn Rand is a rhetorician who writes novels I have never been able to read.
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I am told the Cheney-Bush team dislikes their junta being compared to the Nazis. If they ceased behaving like Nazis, no comparison would come to mind.
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Anybody who is stupid enough to want to be remembered deserves to be forgotten right now.
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Policemen are seldom tried for their crimes, or indeed, held responsible for what they do, which disturbs the peace and causes distress among the orderly.
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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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The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.
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Fifty percent of people won’t vote, and fifty percent don’t read newspapers. I hope it’s the same fifty percent.
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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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We are pleased to dismiss politics as entirely corrupt, if not financially, intellectually.
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There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.
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Like the TV networks, once our government has a hit, it will be repeated over and over again.
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The United States was founded by the brightest people in the country – and we haven’t seen them since.
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You hear all this whining going on, ‘Where are our great writers?’ The thing I might feel doleful about is: Where are the readers?
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Ayn Rand is a rhetorician who writes novels I have never been able to read.
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I’m exactly as I appear. There is no warm, lovable person inside. Beneath my cold exterior, once you break the ice, you find cold water.
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When I say ‘president,’ I still mean Roosevelt – wisely, I think.
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