We’re not a democracy.
GORE VIDALI am not, at heart, a playwright.
More Gore Vidal Quotes
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Remember, I’m West Point, where I was born. My father went there.
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Jack Kennedy very much enjoyed Fletcher Knebel’s thriller ‘Seven Days in May,’ later a film. The story: a jingo based on the real-life Admiral Arthur Radford plans a military coup to take over the White House.
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It’s always best to stay out of other people’s divorces. And their civil wars.
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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 human race is plainly nothing in eternity, but to us, in time, it is everything and ought not to die.
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Gossip is conversation about people.
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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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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 don’t even read most reviews, unless there is a potential lawsuit on view.
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We are pleased to dismiss politics as entirely corrupt, if not financially, intellectually.
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The only thing that I react really violently to is being misquoted.
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I was like everyone else when Obama was elected – optimistic.
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A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.
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Primarily, I am a prose writer with axes to grind, and the theatre is a good place to do the grinding in. I prefer comedy to ‘serious’ drama because I believe one can get the ax sharper on the comedic stone.
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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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