There’s a lot to be said for being nouveau riche, and the Reagans mean to say it all.
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More Gore Vidal Quotes
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I hate nobody.
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Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.
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Never have children, only grandchildren.
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There is no such thing as a homosexual or a heterosexual person. There are only homo- or heterosexual acts. Most people are a mixture of impulses if not practices.
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After adolescence, if one’s life is sufficiently interesting, the desire to tell oneself stories diminishes.
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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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In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you’re a great writer, you must say that you are.
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I think I have a normal threshold of anger, but it’s true that I am, by nature, belligerent.
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Of all recent presidents, Clinton was expected to behave the most sensibly in economic matters. He understood how the economy works. But because he had used various dodges to stay out of the Vietnam War, he came to office ill at ease with the military.
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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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On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.
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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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Remember, I’m West Point, where I was born. My father went there.
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Each youth betrays considerable anxiety about the wedding night ahead.
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Until very recently, the artist was a magician who did his magic in public view but kept himself and his effects a matter of mystery.
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