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.
GORE VIDALThe 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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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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There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.
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I hate nobody.
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At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation and prejudice.
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It is always a delicate matter, when a friend or acquaintance becomes president.
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Every country should have at least one King Farouk.
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I cannot remember when I was not fascinated by Henry Adams.
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What the police in their ignorance have not figured out is that they have lost all credibility since World War II. They are sort of parasites on the fringe of society and do no particular good for anyone except possibly themselves.
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I am only at home in the present.
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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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It is true, as Sartre once wrote, referring to French Army atrocities in Algeria, that the real tragedy in our time is that any of us can be, interchangeably, victim or torturer.
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There is only one party in the United States: the Property party… and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat.
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Each youth betrays considerable anxiety about the wedding night ahead.
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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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Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they’re scraping the top of the barrel.
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