Anybody who is stupid enough to want to be remembered deserves to be forgotten right now.
GORE VIDALI am only at home in the present.
More Gore Vidal Quotes
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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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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 United States was founded by the brightest people in the country – and we haven’t seen them since.
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It is always a delicate matter, when a friend or acquaintance becomes president.
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I hate nobody.
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The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.
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As for my support for Obama, remember that I was brought up in Washington. It was an all-black city when I was a kid. And I’ve always been very pro-African-American – or whatever phrase we now use.
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I don’t even read most reviews, unless there is a potential lawsuit on view.
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Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.
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The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.
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All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world.
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In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you’re a great writer, you must say that you are.
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What the police in their ignorance have not figured out is that they have lost all credibility since World War II. They are sort of parasites on the fringe of society and do no particular good for anyone except possibly themselves.
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History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true.
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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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