There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.
GORE VIDALEach youth betrays considerable anxiety about the wedding night ahead.
More Gore Vidal Quotes
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World War II made prosperous the United States, which had been undergoing a depression for a dozen years, and made very rich those magnates and their managers who govern the republic – with many a wink – in the people’s name.
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Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.
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To preserve the human race, it is now necessary to reorganize society. To this end, an Authority must be created with the power to control human population, to redistribute food, to purify air, water, soil, to re-pattern the cities.
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Since we have literally targeted our enemies, the Pentagon assumes that, sooner or later, rogues will take out our cities, presumably from spaceships.
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I don’t even read most reviews, unless there is a potential lawsuit on view.
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I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
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I’m not paranoid, no. I’m different in that I have enemies. Very real ones.
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From April 1775 to July 1776, the undeclared war between England and its American colonies smoldered, flared up, appeared to sputter out… It was hardly, ever, a mass rebellion.
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The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.
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It is always a delicate matter, when a friend or acquaintance becomes president.
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Ayn Rand is a rhetorician who writes novels I have never been able to read.
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Write something, even if it’s just a suicide note.
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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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It’s always best to stay out of other people’s divorces. And their civil wars.
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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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