I am only at home in the present.
GORE VIDALGossip is conversation about people.
More Gore Vidal Quotes
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All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world.
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Ayn Rand is a rhetorician who writes novels I have never been able to read.
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We’re not a democracy.
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The human race is plainly nothing in eternity, but to us, in time, it is everything and ought not to die.
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I’m not paranoid, no. I’m different in that I have enemies. Very real ones.
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Remember, I’m West Point, where I was born. My father went there.
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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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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 am not, at heart, a playwright.
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I’m not a conspiracy theorist – I’m a conspiracy analyst.
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Primarily, I am a prose writer with axes to grind, and the theatre is a good place to do the grinding in. I prefer comedy to ‘serious’ drama because I believe one can get the ax sharper on the comedic stone.
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Gossip is conversation about people.
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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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TV news is not very instructive.
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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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