I hate nobody.
GORE VIDALAll in all, I would not have missed this century for the world.
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Of all recent presidents, Clinton was expected to behave the most sensibly in economic matters. He understood how the economy works. But because he had used various dodges to stay out of the Vietnam War, he came to office ill at ease with the military.
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Now you have people in Washington who have no interest in the country at all. They’re interested in their companies, their corporations grabbing Caspian oil.
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In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you’re a great writer, you must say that you are.
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The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.
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The United States is a madhouse.
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As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.
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Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.
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I cannot remember when I was not fascinated by Henry Adams.
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Democracy is supposed to give you the feeling of choice, like Painkiller X and Painkiller Y. But they’re both just aspirin.
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At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation and prejudice.
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The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.
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The behaviour of President Bush on 11 September certainly gives rise to not unnatural suspicions.
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That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president.
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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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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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