I know a lot of the Annapolis breed.
GORE VIDALI am only at home in the present.
More Gore Vidal Quotes
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A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.
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Does one ever read a politician’s books?
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That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers.
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As a schoolboy, I read most of Carl Sandburg’s six-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln.
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Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.
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To preserve the human race, it is now necessary to reorganize society. To this end, an Authority must be created with the power to control human population, to redistribute food, to purify air, water, soil, to re-pattern the cities.
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I am only at home in the present.
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The Pentagon talks about our power to ‘overkill’ Russia ten times, twenty times, perhaps forty-eight times. For my tax money, it is sufficient to overkill them once.
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Today’s public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can’t read them either.
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I hate nobody.
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Love is not my bag.
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After adolescence, if one’s life is sufficiently interesting, the desire to tell oneself stories diminishes.
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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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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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Remember, I’m West Point, where I was born. My father went there.
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Fifty percent of people won’t vote, and fifty percent don’t read newspapers. I hope it’s the same fifty percent.
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What I am is something unbearable for the world of journalism and the world of cliches. I’m a realist.
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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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Write something, even if it’s just a suicide note.
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I am not, at heart, a playwright.
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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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It’s always best to stay out of other people’s divorces. And their civil wars.
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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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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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Never have children, only grandchildren.
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I remember the Bond movies when I was a child. They were silent then.
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