Anybody who is stupid enough to want to be remembered deserves to be forgotten right now.
GORE VIDALLike the TV networks, once our government has a hit, it will be repeated over and over again.
More Gore Vidal Quotes
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There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.
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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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On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.
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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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As for civil liberties, any one who is not vigilant may one day find himself living, if not in a police state, at least in a police city.
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It’s always best to stay out of other people’s divorces. And their civil wars.
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Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.
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I know a lot of the Annapolis breed.
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Baseball is the favorite American sport because it’s so slow. Any idiot can follow it. And just about any idiot can play it.
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Gossip is conversation about people.
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When I say ‘president,’ I still mean Roosevelt – wisely, I think.
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I was like everyone else when Obama was elected – optimistic.
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Each youth betrays considerable anxiety about the wedding night ahead.
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Obama just came swiftly out of nowhere, which was a relief to those of us who care about the Republic, and at first he seemed a very good thing.
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