It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true.
GORE VIDALThe unfed mind devours itself.
More Gore Vidal Quotes
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Love is not my bag.
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There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.
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Certainly ‘The Judgment of Paris’ was the novel in which I found my own voice.
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Anybody who is stupid enough to want to be remembered deserves to be forgotten right now.
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The truth about Pearl Harbour is obscured to this day. But it has been much studied.
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After adolescence, if one’s life is sufficiently interesting, the desire to tell oneself stories diminishes.
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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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The only thing that I react really violently to is being misquoted.
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The media can’t get anything straight.
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We must declare ourselves, become known; allow the world to discover this subterranean life of ours which connects kings and farm boys, artists and clerks. Let them see that the important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.
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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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Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.
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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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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
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Now you have people in Washington who have no interest in the country at all. They’re interested in their companies, their corporations grabbing Caspian oil.
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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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You hear all this whining going on, ‘Where are our great writers?’ The thing I might feel doleful about is: Where are the readers?
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Everything’s wrong on Wikipedia.
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Every country should have at least one King Farouk.
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He who is last had best laugh.
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Fifty percent of people won’t vote, and fifty percent don’t read newspapers. I hope it’s the same fifty percent.
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The behaviour of President Bush on 11 September certainly gives rise to not unnatural suspicions.
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All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world.
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In the German concentration camps, Jews wore yellow stars while homosexuals wore pink lambdas.
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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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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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