Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.
GORE VIDALEach youth betrays considerable anxiety about the wedding night ahead.
More Gore Vidal Quotes
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For the record, I’m a Second World War veteran and served in the Pacific.
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In character, as it were, the writer settles for an impression of what happened rather than creating the sense of the thing happening.
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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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All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.
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He who is last had best laugh.
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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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World War II made prosperous the United States, which had been undergoing a depression for a dozen years, and made very rich those magnates and their managers who govern the republic – with many a wink – in the people’s name.
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What I like least about myself is my belligerence.
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Never have children, only grandchildren.
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Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.
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Does one ever read a politician’s books?
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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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Jews, blacks and homosexuals are despised by the Christian and Communist majorities of East and West. Also, as a result of the invention of Israel, Jews can now count on the hatred of the Islamic world.
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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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American history has fallen more and more into the hands of academics.
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