I think I have a normal threshold of anger, but it’s true that I am, by nature, belligerent.
GORE VIDALI am not, at heart, a playwright.
More Gore Vidal Quotes
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I’m always an optimist!
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What the police in their ignorance have not figured out is that they have lost all credibility since World War II. They are sort of parasites on the fringe of society and do no particular good for anyone except possibly themselves.
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A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.
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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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I can’t name three first-rate literary critics in the United States. I’m told there are a few hidden away at universities, but they don’t print them in ‘The New York Times.’
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We’re not a democracy.
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I hate nobody.
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It is always a delicate matter, when a friend or acquaintance becomes president.
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Since we have literally targeted our enemies, the Pentagon assumes that, sooner or later, rogues will take out our cities, presumably from spaceships.
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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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I’m not paranoid, no. I’m different in that I have enemies. Very real ones.
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I don’t even read most reviews, unless there is a potential lawsuit on view.
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The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity – much less dissent.
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As the age of television progresses the Reagans will be the rule, not the exception. To be perfect for television is all a President has to be these days.
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Each youth betrays considerable anxiety about the wedding night ahead.
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