We are pleased to dismiss politics as entirely corrupt, if not financially, intellectually.
GORE VIDALThe Pentagon talks about our power to ‘overkill’ Russia ten times, twenty times, perhaps forty-eight times. For my tax money, it is sufficient to overkill them once.
More Gore Vidal Quotes
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I’m always an optimist!
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I’m all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.
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I’m not paranoid, no. I’m different in that I have enemies. Very real ones.
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Remember, I’m West Point, where I was born. My father went there.
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The United States is a madhouse.
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As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.
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We’re not a democracy.
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The United States was founded by the brightest people in the country – and we haven’t seen them since.
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The Pentagon talks about our power to ‘overkill’ Russia ten times, twenty times, perhaps forty-eight times. For my tax money, it is sufficient to overkill them once.
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Between fourteen and nineteen, I must have begun and abandoned six novels.
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The media can’t get anything straight.
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The greatest pleasure when I started making money was not buying cars or yachts but finding myself able to have as many freshly typed drafts as possible.
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Every country should have at least one King Farouk.
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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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Ayn Rand is a rhetorician who writes novels I have never been able to read.
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