I hate nobody.
GORE VIDALAll in all, I would not have missed this century for the world.
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In writing and politicking, it’s best not to think about it, just do it.
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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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I’m always an optimist!
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What is in question is a kind of book reviewing which seems to be more and more popular: the loose putting down of opinions as though they were facts, and the treating of facts as though they were opinions.
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I’m not paranoid, no. I’m different in that I have enemies. Very real ones.
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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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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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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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A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.
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All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.
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In classical times, it was a capital offense to speculate upon the hour of a king’s death or upon the identity of his successor.
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Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.
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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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Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.
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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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