I deny that there's such a thing as a gay person. I deny there's such a thing as a heterosexual person.
Gore Vidal"Terrorism" is a metaphor, it's an abstract noun. It's like having a war on dandruff. It's something from advertising, it's meaningless.
Gore VidalLife will be wonderful when men no longer fear dying. When the last superstitions are thrown out and we meet death with the same equanimity as life. No longer will children's minds be twisted by evil gods whose fantastic origin is in those barbaric tribes who feared death and lightning, who feared life. That's it: life is the villain to to those who preach reward in death, through grace and eternal bliss, or through dark revenge.
Gore VidalCountry is run by... financial powers & corporate interests [who] send their lawyers to Congress to make laws so that they don't have to pay taxes
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