Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.
GORE VIDALI know a lot of the Annapolis breed.
More Gore Vidal Quotes
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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
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I’m all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.
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Of all recent presidents, Clinton was expected to behave the most sensibly in economic matters. He understood how the economy works. But because he had used various dodges to stay out of the Vietnam War, he came to office ill at ease with the military.
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History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true.
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I am not, at heart, a playwright.
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Nearly everyone who goes into a campaign is not only eager for the place he hopes to fill but for what might come after.
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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.
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Remember, I’m West Point, where I was born. My father went there.
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Never have children, only grandchildren.
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Certainly ‘The Judgment of Paris’ was the novel in which I found my own voice.
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All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.
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The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.
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Policemen are seldom tried for their crimes, or indeed, held responsible for what they do, which disturbs the peace and causes distress among the orderly.
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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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It is always a delicate matter, when a friend or acquaintance becomes president.
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