The unfed mind devours itself.
GORE VIDALThat loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president.
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In writing and politicking, it’s best not to think about it, just do it.
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I think I have a normal threshold of anger, but it’s true that I am, by nature, belligerent.
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It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true.
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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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Jack Kennedy very much enjoyed Fletcher Knebel’s thriller ‘Seven Days in May,’ later a film. The story: a jingo based on the real-life Admiral Arthur Radford plans a military coup to take over the White House.
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Anybody who is stupid enough to want to be remembered deserves to be forgotten right now.
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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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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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The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.
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Certainly ‘The Judgment of Paris’ was the novel in which I found my own voice.
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The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.
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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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Boys don’t like girls around when they do boy things.
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All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.
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It’s always best to stay out of other people’s divorces. And their civil wars.
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