The Puritans left England for America not because they couldn't be Puritans in their mother country, but because they were not allowed to force others to become Puritans; in the New World, of course, they could and did.
Gore VidalBy and large, serious fiction was the work of victims who portrayed victims for an audience of victims who, it was oddly assumed, would want to see their lives realistically portrayed.
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
Gore VidalOur rulers for more than half a century have made sure that we are never to be told the truth about anything that our government has done to other people, not to mention our own.
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