All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.
GORE VIDALI’m not a conspiracy theorist – I’m a conspiracy analyst.
More Gore Vidal Quotes
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The 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.
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For the record, I’m a Second World War veteran and served in the Pacific.
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There’s a lot to be said for being nouveau riche, and the Reagans mean to say it all.
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I could be a lot happier. I could be the senator from Aerospace taking bribes, and be quite happy.
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Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both die.
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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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Remember, I’m West Point, where I was born. My father went there.
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All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world.
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The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.
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I’m all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.
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Anybody who is stupid enough to want to be remembered deserves to be forgotten right now.
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Actually, I can’t remember when I was not writing.
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As the age of television progresses the Reagans will be the rule, not the exception. To be perfect for television is all a President has to be these days.
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We must declare ourselves, become known; allow the world to discover this subterranean life of ours which connects kings and farm boys, artists and clerks. Let them see that the important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.
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I never said I was gay, because I don’t think anyone is.
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