I’m a fervent foe of water pollution, whether it is our own Hudson River or Philadelphia’s tap water.
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More Gore Vidal Quotes
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To invent a war means that you’ve become a wartime president, and you can suspend much if not all of the Bill of Rights.
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A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.
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To get people to do needed things is the perennial hard task of government, not to mention of religion and philosophy.
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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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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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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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Every country should have at least one King Farouk.
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Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made.
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Certainly ‘The Judgment of Paris’ was the novel in which I found my own voice.
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As for my support for Obama, remember that I was brought up in Washington. It was an all-black city when I was a kid. And I’ve always been very pro-African-American – or whatever phrase we now use.
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All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world.
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I am not, at heart, a playwright.
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American history has fallen more and more into the hands of academics.
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I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
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I’m always an optimist!
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