Love is not my bag.
GORE VIDALThe corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity – much less dissent.
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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Does one ever read a politician’s books?
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You hear all this whining going on, ‘Where are our great writers?’ The thing I might feel doleful about is: Where are the readers?
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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 four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.
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Nearly everyone who goes into a campaign is not only eager for the place he hopes to fill but for what might come after.
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I am only at home in the present.
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The greatest pleasure when I started making money was not buying cars or yachts but finding myself able to have as many freshly typed drafts as possible.
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TV news is not very instructive.
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Every country should have at least one King Farouk.
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In character, as it were, the writer settles for an impression of what happened rather than creating the sense of the thing happening.
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I’m exactly as I appear. There is no warm, lovable person inside. Beneath my cold exterior, once you break the ice, you find cold water.
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The Pentagon talks about our power to ‘overkill’ Russia ten times, twenty times, perhaps forty-eight times. For my tax money, it is sufficient to overkill them once.
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Of all recent presidents, Clinton was expected to behave the most sensibly in economic matters. He understood how the economy works. But because he had used various dodges to stay out of the Vietnam War, he came to office ill at ease with the military.
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On September 5, 1774, forty-five of the weightiest colonial men formed the First Continental Congress at Philadelphia.
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There is only one party in the United States: the Property party… and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat.
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By the end of World War II, we were the most powerful and least damaged of the great nations. We also had most of the money. America’s hegemony lasted exactly five years.
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What other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke?
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Jews, blacks and homosexuals are despised by the Christian and Communist majorities of East and West. Also, as a result of the invention of Israel, Jews can now count on the hatred of the Islamic world.
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Each youth betrays considerable anxiety about the wedding night ahead.
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There is no such thing as a homosexual or a heterosexual person. There are only homo- or heterosexual acts. Most people are a mixture of impulses if not practices.
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Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.
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All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world.
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When I say ‘president,’ I still mean Roosevelt – wisely, I think.
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I am a novelist turned temporary adventurer, and I chose to write television, movies and plays for much the same reason that Henry Morgan selected the Spanish Main for his peculiar – and not dissimilar – sphere of operations.
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There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.
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