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.
GORE VIDALI’m not a conspiracy theorist – I’m a conspiracy analyst.
More Gore Vidal Quotes
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I’ve yet to read a memoir by anyone I’ve known at all well that came anywhere near to the truth.
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I cannot remember when I was not fascinated by Henry Adams.
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The United States is the only civilized country in the world to class its teachers at the bottom of the social scale.
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The media can’t get anything straight.
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Having no contemporaries left means you cannot say, ‘Well, so-and-so will like this,’ which you do when you’re younger. You realize there is no so-and-so anymore. You are your own so-and-so. There is a bleak side to it.
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He who is last had best laugh.
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Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.
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Washington turned a blind eye to Al-Qaeda.
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The behaviour of President Bush on 11 September certainly gives rise to not unnatural suspicions.
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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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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 friend was surprised to hear me say that there was not one moment of my past that I would like to relive.
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It’s always best to stay out of other people’s divorces. And their civil wars.
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Actually, I can’t remember when I was not writing.
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Europe began as the relatively empty, uncivilized Wild West of Asia; then the Western Hemisphere became the Wild West of Europe. Now the sun has set in our West and risen once more in the East.
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