Quote #45
Envy is the central fact of American life.
More from Gore Vidal
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- It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
- We have ceased to be a nation under law but instead a homeland where the withered Bill of Rights, like a dead trumpet vine, clings to our p…
- I can understand companionship. I can understand bought sex in the afternoon, but I cannot understand the love affair.
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- Congress no longer declares war or makes budgets. So that's the end of the constitution as a working machine.
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