When I say ‘president,’ I still mean Roosevelt – wisely, I think.
GORE VIDALAll in all, I would not have missed this century for the world.
More Gore Vidal Quotes
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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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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 corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity – much less dissent.
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We are pleased to dismiss politics as entirely corrupt, if not financially, intellectually.
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I never wanted to be a writer. I mean, that’s the last thing I wanted.
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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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Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.
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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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Like the TV networks, once our government has a hit, it will be repeated over and over again.
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Each youth betrays considerable anxiety about the wedding night ahead.
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I’m not paranoid, no. I’m different in that I have enemies. Very real ones.
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Baseball is the favorite American sport because it’s so slow. Any idiot can follow it. And just about any idiot can play it.
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Americans, in general, are ignorant, bigoted, and deeply unhappy with their declining incomes.
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What I like least about myself is my belligerence.
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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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