The Turner Diaries’ is a racist daydream by a former physics teacher writing under the pseudonym Andrew Macdonald.
GORE VIDALAs a schoolboy, I read most of Carl Sandburg’s six-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln.
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The Pentagon talks about our power to ‘overkill’ Russia ten times, twenty times, perhaps forty-eight times. For my tax money, it is sufficient to overkill them once.
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One is sorry one could not have taken both branches of the road. But we were not allotted multiple selves.
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A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.
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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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My father had lifelong contempt for politicians.
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I’m all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.
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Envy is the central fact of American life.
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In character, as it were, the writer settles for an impression of what happened rather than creating the sense of the thing happening.
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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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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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It is essential to naturalist doctrine that literature, to be good, must, finally, be the author’s experience worked out literally.
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He who is last had best laugh.
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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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Love is not my bag.
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Europe began as the relatively empty, uncivilized Wild West of Asia; then the Western Hemisphere became the Wild West of Europe. Now the sun has set in our West and risen once more in the East.
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