History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true.
GORE VIDALI’m always an optimist!
More Gore Vidal Quotes
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As for civil liberties, any one who is not vigilant may one day find himself living, if not in a police state, at least in a police city.
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The truth about Pearl Harbour is obscured to this day. But it has been much studied.
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Until the rise of American advertising, it never occurred to anyone anywhere in the world that the teenager was a captive in a hostile world of adults.
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It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true.
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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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Everything’s wrong on Wikipedia.
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We are pleased to dismiss politics as entirely corrupt, if not financially, intellectually.
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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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Every country should have at least one King Farouk.
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A friend was surprised to hear me say that there was not one moment of my past that I would like to relive.
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I am a novelist turned temporary adventurer, and I chose to write television, movies and plays for much the same reason that Henry Morgan selected the Spanish Main for his peculiar – and not dissimilar – sphere of operations.
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Fifty percent of people won’t vote, and fifty percent don’t read newspapers. I hope it’s the same fifty percent.
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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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In classical times, it was a capital offense to speculate upon the hour of a king’s death or upon the identity of his successor.
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Obama just came swiftly out of nowhere, which was a relief to those of us who care about the Republic, and at first he seemed a very good thing.
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