Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they’re scraping the top of the barrel.
GORE VIDALI 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.’
More Gore Vidal Quotes
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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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Washington turned a blind eye to Al-Qaeda.
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My father had lifelong contempt for politicians.
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I think I have a normal threshold of anger, but it’s true that I am, by nature, belligerent.
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The unfed mind devours itself.
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I am not, at heart, a playwright.
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He who is last had best laugh.
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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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Love is not my bag.
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Both Marx and Christ agree that in this life, a right action is consideration for the welfare of others.
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It’s odd to meet a rather elderly man who says, ‘I’ve been reading you all my life.’ It makes you feel a slight chill.
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Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.
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The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.
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There’s a lot to be said for being nouveau riche, and the Reagans mean to say it all.
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I am told the Cheney-Bush team dislikes their junta being compared to the Nazis. If they ceased behaving like Nazis, no comparison would come to mind.
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