To a man, ornithologists are tall, slender, and bearded so that they can stand motionless for hours, imitating kindly trees, as they watch for birds.
GORE VIDALSex is. There is nothing more to be done about it. Sex builds no roads, writes no novels and sex certainly gives no meaning to anything in life but itself.
More Gore Vidal Quotes
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I know a lot of the Annapolis breed.
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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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In essence, Clinton’s Anti-Terrorism Act would set up a national police force, over the long-dead bodies of the founders.
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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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By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he’s been bought ten times over.
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My father had lifelong contempt for politicians.
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I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
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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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I can’t name three first-rate literary critics in the United States. I’m told there are a few hidden away at universities, but they don’t print them in ‘The New York Times.’
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While campaigning, I got to know many high-school teachers, and let me say that the good ones are the unsung heroes of our society, and the bad ones are the gravediggers.
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In the writing of novels, there is the problem of how to shape a narrative.
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The American high school graduate is two years behind his English, French or German counterpart; in Alabama, God knows how far behind.
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The United States is a madhouse.
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Policemen are seldom tried for their crimes, or indeed, held responsible for what they do, which disturbs the peace and causes distress among the orderly.
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As the age of television progresses the Reagans will be the rule, not the exception. To be perfect for television is all a President has to be these days.
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I was like everyone else when Obama was elected – optimistic.
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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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Write something, even if it’s just a suicide note.
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In writing and politicking, it’s best not to think about it, just do it.
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I can understand companionship.
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Obama just came swiftly out of nowhere, which was a relief to those of us who care about the Republic, and at first he seemed a very good thing.
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I am not, at heart, a playwright.
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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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Between fourteen and nineteen, I must have begun and abandoned six novels.
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For the record, I’m a Second World War veteran and served in the Pacific.
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Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.
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