I remember the Bond movies when I was a child. They were silent then.
GORE VIDALAs a schoolboy, I read most of Carl Sandburg’s six-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln.
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What I like least about myself is my belligerence.
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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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At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation and prejudice.
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As for civil liberties, any one who is not vigilant may one day find himself living, if not in a police state, at least in a police city.
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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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I never said I was gay, because I don’t think anyone is.
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While campaigning, I got to know many high-school teachers, and let me say that the good ones are the unsung heroes of our society, and the bad ones are the gravediggers.
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Certainly ‘The Judgment of Paris’ was the novel in which I found my own voice.
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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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In the German concentration camps, Jews wore yellow stars while homosexuals wore pink lambdas.
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I was the most famous kid in the United States. That was 1936.
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When I say ‘president,’ I still mean Roosevelt – wisely, I think.
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The United States is a madhouse.
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Having no contemporaries left means you cannot say, ‘Well, so-and-so will like this,’ which you do when you’re younger. You realize there is no so-and-so anymore. You are your own so-and-so. There is a bleak side to it.
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Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.
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