We are pleased to dismiss politics as entirely corrupt, if not financially, intellectually.
GORE VIDALWhy not just eliminate the federal income tax?
More Gore Vidal Quotes
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Each youth betrays considerable anxiety about the wedding night ahead.
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To preserve the human race, it is now necessary to reorganize society. To this end, an Authority must be created with the power to control human population, to redistribute food, to purify air, water, soil, to re-pattern the cities.
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I’m not a conspiracy theorist – I’m a conspiracy analyst.
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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 is very difficult for a writer of my generation, if he is honest, to pretend indifference to the work of Somerset Maugham. He was always so entirely there.
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I never said I was gay, because I don’t think anyone is.
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Americans have no idea of the extent of their government’s mischief… the number of military strikes we have made unprovoked, against other countries, since 1947 is more than 250.
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Until the rise of American advertising, it never occurred to anyone anywhere in the world that the teenager was a captive in a hostile world of adults.
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What I am is something unbearable for the world of journalism and the world of cliches. I’m a realist.
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It is always a delicate matter, when a friend or acquaintance becomes president.
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I’m always an optimist!
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You cannot deprive somebody of life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, because that is a right – constitutional right.
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I am told the Cheney-Bush team dislikes their junta being compared to the Nazis. If they ceased behaving like Nazis, no comparison would come to mind.
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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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It’s always best to stay out of other people’s divorces. And their civil wars.
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