Certainly ‘The Judgment of Paris’ was the novel in which I found my own voice.
GORE VIDALTo a man, ornithologists are tall, slender, and bearded so that they can stand motionless for hours, imitating kindly trees, as they watch for birds.
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All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world.
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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 was like everyone else when Obama was elected – optimistic.
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On September 5, 1774, forty-five of the weightiest colonial men formed the First Continental Congress at Philadelphia.
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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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Envy is the central fact of American life.
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Never have children, only grandchildren.
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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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When I say ‘president,’ I still mean Roosevelt – wisely, I think.
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In the German concentration camps, Jews wore yellow stars while homosexuals wore pink lambdas.
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Between fourteen and nineteen, I must have begun and abandoned six novels.
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We are pleased to dismiss politics as entirely corrupt, if not financially, intellectually.
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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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It is true, as Sartre once wrote, referring to French Army atrocities in Algeria, that the real tragedy in our time is that any of us can be, interchangeably, victim or torturer.
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I’m not a conspiracy theorist – I’m a conspiracy analyst.
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