There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.
GORE VIDALAt any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation and prejudice.
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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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The first grown-up book that I read on my own was a nineteenth-century edition of ‘Tales from Livy’ that I’d found in my grandfather’s library.
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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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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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On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.
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It is always a delicate matter, when a friend or acquaintance becomes president.
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I remember the Bond movies when I was a child. They were silent then.
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The unfed mind devours itself.
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Obama just came swiftly out of nowhere, which was a relief to those of us who care about the Republic, and at first he seemed a very good thing.
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The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.
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World War II made prosperous the United States, which had been undergoing a depression for a dozen years, and made very rich those magnates and their managers who govern the republic – with many a wink – in the people’s name.
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As a schoolboy, I read most of Carl Sandburg’s six-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln.
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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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What I like least about myself is my belligerence.
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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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American history has fallen more and more into the hands of academics.
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You cannot deprive somebody of life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, because that is a right – constitutional right.
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It’s odd to meet a rather elderly man who says, ‘I’ve been reading you all my life.’ It makes you feel a slight chill.
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I’m all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.
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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 was the most famous kid in the United States. That was 1936.
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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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On September 5, 1774, forty-five of the weightiest colonial men formed the First Continental Congress at Philadelphia.
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Ayn Rand is a rhetorician who writes novels I have never been able to read.
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The media can’t get anything straight.
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If you are a Representative and want to be a Senator, you must be careful not to do anything which might upset the various forces you need to harness to get elected.
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