One is sorry one could not have taken both branches of the road. But we were not allotted multiple selves.
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To invent a war means that you’ve become a wartime president, and you can suspend much if not all of the Bill of Rights.
More Gore Vidal Quotes
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One is sorry one could not have taken both branches of the road. But we were not allotted multiple selves.
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Each youth betrays considerable anxiety about the wedding night ahead.
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I’ve yet to read a memoir by anyone I’ve known at all well that came anywhere near to the truth.
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I’m not paranoid, no. I’m different in that I have enemies. Very real ones.
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Ayn Rand is a rhetorician who writes novels I have never been able to read.
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Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.
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There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.
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I am not, at heart, a playwright.
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To invent a war means that you’ve become a wartime president, and you can suspend much if not all of the Bill of Rights.
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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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By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he’s been bought ten times over.
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I remember the Bond movies when I was a child. They were silent then.
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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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Americans have no idea of the extent of their government’s mischief… the number of military strikes we have made unprovoked, against other countries, since 1947 is more than 250.
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On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.
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Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.
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