TV news is not very instructive.
GORE VIDALFor the record, I’m a Second World War veteran and served in the Pacific.
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After adolescence, if one’s life is sufficiently interesting, the desire to tell oneself stories diminishes.
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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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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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The media can’t get anything straight.
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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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I am told the Cheney-Bush team dislikes their junta being compared to the Nazis. If they ceased behaving like Nazis, no comparison would come to mind.
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I cannot remember when I was not fascinated by Henry Adams.
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Corporations must pay tax.
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History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true.
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What I like least about myself is my belligerence.
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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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The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.
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Anybody who is stupid enough to want to be remembered deserves to be forgotten right now.
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The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity – much less dissent.
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In 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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