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My father once said something...

My father once said something very shrewd about me to a woman journalist who had told him how courageous she thought I was for always speaking my mind. My father said, 'If you couldn't care less what anyone says about you, then it's not courage.'

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There's a lot to be said for ...

There's a lot to be said for being nouveau riche, and the Reagans mean to say it all.

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In the German concentration c...

In the German concentration camps, Jews wore yellow stars while homosexuals wore pink lambdas.

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Many writers who choose to be...

Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made.

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As for civil liberties, any o...

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 raised in the Washingto...

I was raised in the Washington household of my grandfather Senator Thomas P. Gore of Oklahoma, and have known politicians intimately all my life.

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As societies grow decadent, t...

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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It is not enough to succeed. ...

It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

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Until the rise of American ad...

Until the rise of American advertising, it never occurred to anyone anywhere in the world that the teenager was a captive in a hostile world of adults.

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Half of the American people h...

Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.

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There is no such thing as a h...

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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The greatest pleasure when I ...

The greatest pleasure when I started making money was not buying cars or yachts but finding myself able to have as many freshly typed drafts as possible.

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We are the United States of A...

We are the United States of Amnesia, which is encouraged by a media that has no desire to tell us the truth about anything, serving their corporate masters who have other plans to dominate us.

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The unfed mind devours itself...

The unfed mind devours itself.

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Europe began as the relativel...

Europe began as the relatively empty, uncivilized Wild West of Asia; then the Western Hemisphere became the Wild West of Europe. Now the sun has set in our West and risen once more in the East.

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I'm all for bringing back the...

I'm all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.

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I never miss a chance to have...

I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.

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Write something, even if it's...

Write something, even if it's just a suicide note.

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You hear all this whining goi...

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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Apparently, a democracy is a ...

Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.

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