We’re not a democracy.
GORE VIDALAmericans, in general, are ignorant, bigoted, and deeply unhappy with their declining incomes.
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I’m not paranoid, no. I’m different in that I have enemies. Very real ones.
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To 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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I cannot remember when I was not fascinated by Henry Adams.
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The human race is plainly nothing in eternity, but to us, in time, it is everything and ought not to die.
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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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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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Now you have people in Washington who have no interest in the country at all. They’re interested in their companies, their corporations grabbing Caspian oil.
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Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.
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Anybody who is stupid enough to want to be remembered deserves to be forgotten right now.
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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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Washington turned a blind eye to Al-Qaeda.
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I never said I was gay, because I don’t think anyone is.
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Fifty percent of people won’t vote, and fifty percent don’t read newspapers. I hope it’s the same fifty percent.
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Does one ever read a politician’s books?
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I was the most famous kid in the United States. That was 1936.
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