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GORE VIDALThe United States is a madhouse.
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The Turner Diaries’ is a racist daydream by a former physics teacher writing under the pseudonym Andrew Macdonald.
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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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Ayn Rand is a rhetorician who writes novels I have never been able to read.
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It is essential to naturalist doctrine that literature, to be good, must, finally, be the author’s experience worked out literally.
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Gossip is conversation about people.
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We’re not a democracy.
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The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.
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A racial or religious or tribal identity is a kind of fact.
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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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You hear all this whining going on, ‘Where are our great writers?’ The thing I might feel doleful about is: Where are the readers?
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Today’s public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can’t read them either.
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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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Of all recent presidents, Clinton was expected to behave the most sensibly in economic matters. He understood how the economy works. But because he had used various dodges to stay out of the Vietnam War, he came to office ill at ease with the military.
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Love is not my bag.
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Certainly ‘The Judgment of Paris’ was the novel in which I found my own voice.
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