Each youth betrays considerable anxiety about the wedding night ahead.
GORE VIDALWhenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.
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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A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.
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There is only one party in the United States: the Property party… and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat.
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I know a lot of the Annapolis breed.
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I am only at home in the present.
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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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American history has fallen more and more into the hands of academics.
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Like the TV networks, once our government has a hit, it will be repeated over and over again.
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Actually, I can’t remember when I was not writing.
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Nearly everyone who goes into a campaign is not only eager for the place he hopes to fill but for what might come after.
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Jack Kennedy very much enjoyed Fletcher Knebel’s thriller ‘Seven Days in May,’ later a film. The story: a jingo based on the real-life Admiral Arthur Radford plans a military coup to take over the White House.
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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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It is always a delicate matter, when a friend or acquaintance becomes president.
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Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.
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Corporations must pay tax.
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