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“Rome... at its most decadent, had never thought of hiring an actor to go through the motions of being an emperor while the Praetorian Guard ruled.”
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“Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either.”
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“Laughing at someone else is an excellent way of learning how to laugh at oneself; and questioning what seem to be the absurd beliefs of another group is a good way of recognizing the potential absurdity of many of one's own cherished beliefs.”
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“In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you're a great writer, you must say that you are.”
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“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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“Sex is. There is nothing more to be done about it. Sex builds no roads, writes no novels and sex certainly gives no meaning to anything in life but itself.”
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“The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity - much less dissent.”
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“What other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke?”
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“Andy Warhol is the only genius I've ever known with an I.Q. of 60.”
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“Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.”
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