It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
GORE VIDALI never said I was gay, because I don’t think anyone is.
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My father had lifelong contempt for politicians.
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In the writing of novels, there is the problem of how to shape a narrative.
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Never have children, only grandchildren.
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History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true.
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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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The United States is a madhouse.
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I remember the Bond movies when I was a child. They were silent then.
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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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Today’s public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can’t read them either.
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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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The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.
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The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.
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Envy is the central fact of American life.
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Jews, blacks and homosexuals are despised by the Christian and Communist majorities of East and West. Also, as a result of the invention of Israel, Jews can now count on the hatred of the Islamic world.
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Temperamentally, I am suspicious of belonging to anything. When I ran for office, I debated seriously whether or not to run as an independent because I was not eager to be saddled with the Democratic Party, because any party label is committing.
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