I’m not a conspiracy theorist – I’m a conspiracy analyst.
GORE VIDALThat loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president.
More Gore Vidal Quotes
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Primarily, I am a prose writer with axes to grind, and the theatre is a good place to do the grinding in. I prefer comedy to ‘serious’ drama because I believe one can get the ax sharper on the comedic stone.
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Washington turned a blind eye to Al-Qaeda.
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I’m exactly as I appear. There is no warm, lovable person inside. Beneath my cold exterior, once you break the ice, you find cold water.
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For the record, I’m a Second World War veteran and served in the Pacific.
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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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A friend was surprised to hear me say that there was not one moment of my past that I would like to relive.
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History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true.
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A racial or religious or tribal identity is a kind of fact.
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Today’s public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can’t read them either.
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I am not, at heart, a playwright.
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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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Sex is. There is nothing more to be done about it. Sex builds no roads, writes no novels and sex certainly gives no meaning to anything in life but itself.
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In character, as it were, the writer settles for an impression of what happened rather than creating the sense of the thing happening.
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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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What the police in their ignorance have not figured out is that they have lost all credibility since World War II. They are sort of parasites on the fringe of society and do no particular good for anyone except possibly themselves.
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