Washington turned a blind eye to Al-Qaeda.
GORE VIDALThe unfed mind devours itself.
More Gore Vidal Quotes
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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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Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made.
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Every country should have at least one King Farouk.
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One is sorry one could not have taken both branches of the road. But we were not allotted multiple selves.
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The first grown-up book that I read on my own was a nineteenth-century edition of ‘Tales from Livy’ that I’d found in my grandfather’s library.
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There’s a lot to be said for being nouveau riche, and the Reagans mean to say it all.
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Having no contemporaries left means you cannot say, ‘Well, so-and-so will like this,’ which you do when you’re younger. You realize there is no so-and-so anymore. You are your own so-and-so. There is a bleak side to it.
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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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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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Gossip is conversation about people.
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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
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In the writing of novels, there is the problem of how to shape a narrative.
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Boys don’t like girls around when they do boy things.
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Everything’s wrong on Wikipedia.
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I’m not a conspiracy theorist – I’m a conspiracy analyst.
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