Love is not my bag.
GORE VIDALI could be a lot happier. I could be the senator from Aerospace taking bribes, and be quite happy.
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I remember the Bond movies when I was a child. They were silent then.
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By the end of World War II, we were the most powerful and least damaged of the great nations. We also had most of the money. America’s hegemony lasted exactly five years.
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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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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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Sex is. There is nothing more to be done about it. Sex builds no roads, writes no novels and sex certainly gives no meaning to anything in life but itself.
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TV news is not very instructive.
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Washington turned a blind eye to Al-Qaeda.
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The media can’t get anything straight.
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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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To preserve the human race, it is now necessary to reorganize society. To this end, an Authority must be created with the power to control human population, to redistribute food, to purify air, water, soil, to re-pattern the cities.
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My father had lifelong contempt for politicians.
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I can understand companionship.
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There is no such thing as a homosexual or a heterosexual person. There are only homo- or heterosexual acts. Most people are a mixture of impulses if not practices.
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Gossip is conversation about people.
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I think I have a normal threshold of anger, but it’s true that I am, by nature, belligerent.
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