Envy is the central fact of American life.
GORE VIDALCertainly ‘The Judgment of Paris’ was the novel in which I found my own voice.
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A friend was surprised to hear me say that there was not one moment of my past that I would like to relive.
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I’m not a conspiracy theorist – I’m a conspiracy analyst.
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Remember, I’m West Point, where I was born. My father went there.
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Each youth betrays considerable anxiety about the wedding night ahead.
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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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It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true.
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Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.
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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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The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.
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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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What other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke?
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A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.
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What I like least about myself is my belligerence.
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Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.
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There is only one party in the United States: the Property party… and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat.
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