I can’t name three first-rate literary critics in the United States. I’m told there are a few hidden away at universities, but they don’t print them in ‘The New York Times.’
GORE VIDALA racial or religious or tribal identity is a kind of fact.
More Gore Vidal Quotes
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There’s a lot to be said for being nouveau riche, and the Reagans mean to say it all.
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I am only at home in the present.
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As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.
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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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Corporations must pay tax.
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It’s odd to meet a rather elderly man who says, ‘I’ve been reading you all my life.’ It makes you feel a slight chill.
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I’m exactly as I appear. There is no warm, lovable person inside. Beneath my cold exterior, once you break the ice, you find cold water.
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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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Since we have literally targeted our enemies, the Pentagon assumes that, sooner or later, rogues will take out our cities, presumably from spaceships.
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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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Between fourteen and nineteen, I must have begun and abandoned six novels.
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Washington turned a blind eye to Al-Qaeda.
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All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world.
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What I like least about myself is my belligerence.
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I could be a lot happier. I could be the senator from Aerospace taking bribes, and be quite happy.
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