It is reasonable to assume that, by and large, what is not read now will not be read, ever. It is also reasonable to assume that practically nothing that is read now will be read later.
Gore VidalBig oil, big steel, big agriculture avoid the open marketplace. Big corporations fix prices among themselves and thus drive out of business the small entrepreneur. Also, in their conglomerate form, the huge corporations have begun to challenge the very legitimacy of the state.
Gore VidalFor the average American, freedom of speech is simply the freedom to repeat what everyone else is saying and no more.
Gore VidalI deny that there's such a thing as a gay person. I deny there's such a thing as a heterosexual person.
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