Never have children, only grandchildren.
GORE VIDALWhat I like least about myself is my belligerence.
More Gore Vidal Quotes
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TV news is not very instructive.
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The United States is the only civilized country in the world to class its teachers at the bottom of the social scale.
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Some of my father’s fellow West Pointers once asked him why I turned out so well, his secret in raising me. And he said, ‘I never gave him any advice, and he never asked for any.’ We agreed on nothing, but we never quarreled once.
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Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.
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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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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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A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.
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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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Baseball is the favorite American sport because it’s so slow. Any idiot can follow it. And just about any idiot can play it.
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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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Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they’re scraping the top of the barrel.
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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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There is no such thing as a homosexual or a heterosexual person. There are only homo- or heterosexual acts. Most people are a mixture of impulses if not practices.
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Gossip is conversation about people.
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I hate nobody.
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