Like the TV networks, once our government has a hit, it will be repeated over and over again.
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More Gore Vidal Quotes
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Anybody who is stupid enough to want to be remembered deserves to be forgotten right now.
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In the writing of novels, there is the problem of how to shape a narrative.
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Sex is. There is nothing more to be done about it. Sex builds no roads, writes no novels and sex certainly gives no meaning to anything in life but itself.
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Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.
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I was raised in the Washington household of my grandfather Senator Thomas P. Gore of Oklahoma, and have known politicians intimately all my life.
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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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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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Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.
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On September 5, 1774, forty-five of the weightiest colonial men formed the First Continental Congress at Philadelphia.
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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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Policemen are seldom tried for their crimes, or indeed, held responsible for what they do, which disturbs the peace and causes distress among the orderly.
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I was like everyone else when Obama was elected – optimistic.
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Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.
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American history has fallen more and more into the hands of academics.
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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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I think I have a normal threshold of anger, but it’s true that I am, by nature, belligerent.
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A racial or religious or tribal identity is a kind of fact.
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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
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It is essential to naturalist doctrine that literature, to be good, must, finally, be the author’s experience worked out literally.
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By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he’s been bought ten times over.
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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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I can understand companionship.
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The human race is plainly nothing in eternity, but to us, in time, it is everything and ought not to die.
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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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I’m a fervent foe of water pollution, whether it is our own Hudson River or Philadelphia’s tap water.
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Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.
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