Anybody who is stupid enough to want to be remembered deserves to be forgotten right now.
GORE VIDALFifty 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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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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History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true.
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The unfed mind devours itself.
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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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To a man, ornithologists are tall, slender, and bearded so that they can stand motionless for hours, imitating kindly trees, as they watch for birds.
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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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Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.
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Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.
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What I am is something unbearable for the world of journalism and the world of cliches. I’m a realist.
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He who is last had best laugh.
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I know a lot of the Annapolis breed.
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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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I was the most famous kid in the United States. That was 1936.
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There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.
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The United States is a madhouse.
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