When I say ‘president,’ I still mean Roosevelt – wisely, I think.
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More Gore Vidal Quotes
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After adolescence, if one’s life is sufficiently interesting, the desire to tell oneself stories diminishes.
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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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I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
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Democracy is supposed to give you the feeling of choice, like Painkiller X and Painkiller Y. But they’re both just aspirin.
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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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I never wanted to be a writer. I mean, that’s the last thing I wanted.
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In the writing of novels, there is the problem of how to shape a narrative.
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That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president.
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There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.
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Love is not my bag.
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Each youth betrays considerable anxiety about the wedding night ahead.
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The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity – much less dissent.
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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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Everything’s wrong on Wikipedia.
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Boys don’t like girls around when they do boy things.
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