I’m exactly as I appear. There is no warm, lovable person inside. Beneath my cold exterior, once you break the ice, you find cold water.
GORE VIDALEurope began as the relatively empty, uncivilized Wild West of Asia; then the Western Hemisphere became the Wild West of Europe. Now the sun has set in our West and risen once more in the East.
More Gore Vidal Quotes
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We’re not a democracy.
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When I say ‘president,’ I still mean Roosevelt – wisely, I think.
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I’m always an optimist!
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There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.
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All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world.
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If you are a Representative and want to be a Senator, you must be careful not to do anything which might upset the various forces you need to harness to get elected.
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The greatest pleasure when I started making money was not buying cars or yachts but finding myself able to have as many freshly typed drafts as possible.
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I was raised in the Washington household of my grandfather Senator Thomas P. Gore of Oklahoma, and have known politicians intimately all my life.
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Until very recently, the artist was a magician who did his magic in public view but kept himself and his effects a matter of mystery.
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I’ve yet to read a memoir by anyone I’ve known at all well that came anywhere near to the truth.
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In character, as it were, the writer settles for an impression of what happened rather than creating the sense of the thing happening.
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It’s always best to stay out of other people’s divorces. And their civil wars.
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The truth about Pearl Harbour is obscured to this day. But it has been much studied.
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I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
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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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