Why not just eliminate the federal income tax?
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.
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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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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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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For the record, I’m a Second World War veteran and served in the Pacific.
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What I like least about myself is my belligerence.
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Americans have no idea of the extent of their government’s mischief… the number of military strikes we have made unprovoked, against other countries, since 1947 is more than 250.
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It is always a delicate matter, when a friend or acquaintance becomes president.
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In classical times, it was a capital offense to speculate upon the hour of a king’s death or upon the identity of his successor.
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Never have children, only grandchildren.
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Having no contemporaries left means you cannot say, ‘Well, so-and-so will like this,’ which you do when you’re younger. You realize there is no so-and-so anymore. You are your own so-and-so. There is a bleak side to it.
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I never said I was gay, because I don’t think anyone is.
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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
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TV news is not very instructive.
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Certainly ‘The Judgment of Paris’ was the novel in which I found my own voice.
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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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