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.
GORE VIDALMany writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made.
More Gore Vidal Quotes
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We are pleased to dismiss politics as entirely corrupt, if not financially, intellectually.
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The United States is a madhouse.
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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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Americans, in general, are ignorant, bigoted, and deeply unhappy with their declining incomes.
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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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All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.
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There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.
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There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.
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Sex is. There is nothing more to be done about it. Sex builds no roads, writes no novels and sex certainly gives no meaning to anything in life but itself.
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Everything’s wrong on Wikipedia.
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The human race is plainly nothing in eternity, but to us, in time, it is everything and ought not to die.
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I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
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Each youth betrays considerable anxiety about the wedding night ahead.
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TV news is not very instructive.
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He who is last had best laugh.
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