There is only one party in the United States: the Property party… and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat.
GORE VIDALI am a novelist turned temporary adventurer, and I chose to write television, movies and plays for much the same reason that Henry Morgan selected the Spanish Main for his peculiar – and not dissimilar – sphere of operations.
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I am only at home in the present.
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The media can’t get anything straight.
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My father had lifelong contempt for politicians.
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We are pleased to dismiss politics as entirely corrupt, if not financially, intellectually.
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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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Boys don’t like girls around when they do boy things.
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What other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke?
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On September 5, 1774, forty-five of the weightiest colonial men formed the First Continental Congress at Philadelphia.
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I never said I was gay, because I don’t think anyone is.
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Does one ever read a politician’s books?
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Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.
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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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We must declare ourselves, become known; allow the world to discover this subterranean life of ours which connects kings and farm boys, artists and clerks. Let them see that the important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.
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If you are a Representative and want to be a Senator, you must be careful not to do anything which might upset the various forces you need to harness to get elected.
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By the end of World War II, we were the most powerful and least damaged of the great nations. We also had most of the money. America’s hegemony lasted exactly five years.
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