Some of my father’s fellow West Pointers once asked him why I turned out so well, his secret in raising me. And he said, ‘I never gave him any advice, and he never asked for any.’ We agreed on nothing, but we never quarreled once.
GORE VIDALCertainly ‘The Judgment of Paris’ was the novel in which I found my own voice.
More Gore Vidal Quotes
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There is only one party in the United States: the Property party… and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat.
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Each youth betrays considerable anxiety about the wedding night ahead.
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Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.
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Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.
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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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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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Some have deplored Lincoln’s indifference to Christianity. But it was not religion, it was religiosity that put him off.
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Everything’s wrong on Wikipedia.
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I don’t even read most reviews, unless there is a potential lawsuit on view.
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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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American history has fallen more and more into the hands of academics.
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Actually, I can’t remember when I was not writing.
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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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I think I have a normal threshold of anger, but it’s true that I am, by nature, belligerent.
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He who is last had best laugh.
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