After adolescence, if one’s life is sufficiently interesting, the desire to tell oneself stories diminishes.
GORE VIDALThe theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.
More Gore Vidal Quotes
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Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they’re scraping the top of the barrel.
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You hear all this whining going on, ‘Where are our great writers?’ The thing I might feel doleful about is: Where are the readers?
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As for civil liberties, any one who is not vigilant may one day find himself living, if not in a police state, at least in a police city.
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Americans, in general, are ignorant, bigoted, and deeply unhappy with their declining incomes.
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Everything’s wrong on Wikipedia.
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Anybody who is stupid enough to want to be remembered deserves to be forgotten right now.
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At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation and prejudice.
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Fifty percent of people won’t vote, and fifty percent don’t read newspapers. I hope it’s the same fifty percent.
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By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he’s been bought ten times over.
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I think I have a normal threshold of anger, but it’s true that I am, by nature, belligerent.
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My father had lifelong contempt for politicians.
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Some of my father’s fellow West Pointers once asked him why I turned out so well, his secret in raising me. And he said, ‘I never gave him any advice, and he never asked for any.’ We agreed on nothing, but we never quarreled once.
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I’m always an optimist!
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The only thing that I react really violently to is being misquoted.
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I know a lot of the Annapolis breed.
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I can’t name three first-rate literary critics in the United States. I’m told there are a few hidden away at universities, but they don’t print them in ‘The New York Times.’
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As a schoolboy, I read most of Carl Sandburg’s six-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln.
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It is essential to naturalist doctrine that literature, to be good, must, finally, be the author’s experience worked out literally.
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Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made.
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I’m not a conspiracy theorist – I’m a conspiracy analyst.
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Gossip is conversation about people.
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I was raised in the Washington household of my grandfather Senator Thomas P. Gore of Oklahoma, and have known politicians intimately all my life.
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Between fourteen and nineteen, I must have begun and abandoned six novels.
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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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A racial or religious or tribal identity is a kind of fact.
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Love is not my bag.
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