Some of my father’s fellow West Pointers once asked him why I turned out so well, his secret in raising me. And he said, ‘I never gave him any advice, and he never asked for any.’ We agreed on nothing, but we never quarreled once.
GORE VIDALA friend was surprised to hear me say that there was not one moment of my past that I would like to relive.
More Gore Vidal Quotes
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Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.
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I’m not paranoid, no. I’m different in that I have enemies. Very real ones.
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We’re not a democracy.
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That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers.
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The only thing that I react really violently to is being misquoted.
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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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I’m always an optimist!
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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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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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Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both die.
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To invent a war means that you’ve become a wartime president, and you can suspend much if not all of the Bill of Rights.
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Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.
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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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I’m not a conspiracy theorist – I’m a conspiracy analyst.
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