Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they’re scraping the top of the barrel.
GORE VIDALSince we have literally targeted our enemies, the Pentagon assumes that, sooner or later, rogues will take out our cities, presumably from spaceships.
More Gore Vidal Quotes
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Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.
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Democracy is supposed to give you the feeling of choice, like Painkiller X and Painkiller Y. But they’re both just aspirin.
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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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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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Actually, I can’t remember when I was not writing.
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What I like least about myself is my belligerence.
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The Turner Diaries’ is a racist daydream by a former physics teacher writing under the pseudonym Andrew Macdonald.
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The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity – much less dissent.
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Does one ever read a politician’s books?
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I cannot remember when I was not fascinated by Henry Adams.
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What other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke?
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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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In writing and politicking, it’s best not to think about it, just do it.
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Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.
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American history has fallen more and more into the hands of academics.
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Some have deplored Lincoln’s indifference to Christianity. But it was not religion, it was religiosity that put him off.
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From April 1775 to July 1776, the undeclared war between England and its American colonies smoldered, flared up, appeared to sputter out… It was hardly, ever, a mass rebellion.
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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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The United States is a madhouse.
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I don’t even read most reviews, unless there is a potential lawsuit on view.
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In the writing of novels, there is the problem of how to shape a narrative.
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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 am not, at heart, a playwright.
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It is always a delicate matter, when a friend or acquaintance becomes president.
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Never have children, only grandchildren.
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Americans, in general, are ignorant, bigoted, and deeply unhappy with their declining incomes.
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