The American high school graduate is two years behind his English, French or German counterpart; in Alabama, God knows how far behind.
GORE VIDALAnybody who is stupid enough to want to be remembered deserves to be forgotten right now.
More Gore Vidal Quotes
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A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.
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To get people to do needed things is the perennial hard task of government, not to mention of religion and philosophy.
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I cannot remember when I was not fascinated by Henry Adams.
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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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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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Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.
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What the police in their ignorance have not figured out is that they have lost all credibility since World War II. They are sort of parasites on the fringe of society and do no particular good for anyone except possibly themselves.
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While campaigning, I got to know many high-school teachers, and let me say that the good ones are the unsung heroes of our society, and the bad ones are the gravediggers.
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By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he’s been bought ten times over.
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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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The media can’t get anything straight.
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I know a lot of the Annapolis breed.
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It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true.
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Fifty 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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Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.
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