At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation and prejudice.
GORE VIDALI am not, at heart, a playwright.
More Gore Vidal Quotes
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We’re not a democracy.
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Some have deplored Lincoln’s indifference to Christianity. But it was not religion, it was religiosity that put him off.
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It is essential to naturalist doctrine that literature, to be good, must, finally, be the author’s experience worked out literally.
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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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When I say ‘president,’ I still mean Roosevelt – wisely, I think.
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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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Every country should have at least one King Farouk.
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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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Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.
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I can’t name three first-rate literary critics in the United States. I’m told there are a few hidden away at universities, but they don’t print them in ‘The New York Times.’
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In the writing of novels, there is the problem of how to shape a narrative.
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What I like least about myself is my belligerence.
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I’m not a conspiracy theorist – I’m a conspiracy analyst.
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As a schoolboy, I read most of Carl Sandburg’s six-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln.
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I’m always an optimist!
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