There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.
GORE VIDALAll in all, I would not have missed this century for the world.
More Gore Vidal Quotes
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I’ve yet to read a memoir by anyone I’ve known at all well that came anywhere near to the truth.
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I can understand companionship.
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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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I’m a fervent foe of water pollution, whether it is our own Hudson River or Philadelphia’s tap water.
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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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The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.
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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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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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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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You cannot deprive somebody of life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, because that is a right – constitutional right.
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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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I’m not paranoid, no. I’m different in that I have enemies. Very real ones.
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Every country should have at least one King Farouk.
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In the writing of novels, there is the problem of how to shape a narrative.
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Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.
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To get people to do needed things is the perennial hard task of government, not to mention of religion and philosophy.
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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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Temperamentally, I am suspicious of belonging to anything. When I ran for office, I debated seriously whether or not to run as an independent because I was not eager to be saddled with the Democratic Party, because any party label is committing.
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Everything’s wrong on Wikipedia.
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Love is not my bag.
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The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.
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I could be a lot happier. I could be the senator from Aerospace taking bribes, and be quite happy.
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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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I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
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Europe began as the relatively empty, uncivilized Wild West of Asia; then the Western Hemisphere became the Wild West of Europe. Now the sun has set in our West and risen once more in the East.
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Since we have literally targeted our enemies, the Pentagon assumes that, sooner or later, rogues will take out our cities, presumably from spaceships.
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