For the record, I’m a Second World War veteran and served in the Pacific.
GORE VIDALIn essence, Clinton’s Anti-Terrorism Act would set up a national police force, over the long-dead bodies of the founders.
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There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.
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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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Both Marx and Christ agree that in this life, a right action is consideration for the welfare of others.
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Primarily, I am a prose writer with axes to grind, and the theatre is a good place to do the grinding in. I prefer comedy to ‘serious’ drama because I believe one can get the ax sharper on the comedic stone.
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The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.
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Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both die.
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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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I’m exactly as I appear. There is no warm, lovable person inside. Beneath my cold exterior, once you break the ice, you find cold water.
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I’m not a conspiracy theorist – I’m a conspiracy analyst.
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We’re not a democracy.
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I was the most famous kid in the United States. That was 1936.
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What I am is something unbearable for the world of journalism and the world of cliches. I’m a realist.
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Boys don’t like girls around when they do boy things.
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I don’t even read most reviews, unless there is a potential lawsuit on view.
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As the age of television progresses the Reagans will be the rule, not the exception. To be perfect for television is all a President has to be these days.
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