Anybody who is stupid enough to want to be remembered deserves to be forgotten right now.
GORE VIDALYou hear all this whining going on, ‘Where are our great writers?’ The thing I might feel doleful about is: Where are the readers?
More Gore Vidal Quotes
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What I am is something unbearable for the world of journalism and the world of cliches. I’m a realist.
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When I say ‘president,’ I still mean Roosevelt – wisely, I think.
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It is always a delicate matter, when a friend or acquaintance becomes president.
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American history has fallen more and more into the hands of academics.
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You cannot deprive somebody of life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, because that is a right – constitutional right.
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I can understand companionship.
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Never have children, only grandchildren.
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I am told the Cheney-Bush team dislikes their junta being compared to the Nazis. If they ceased behaving like Nazis, no comparison would come to mind.
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I hate nobody.
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Love is not my bag.
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I’m all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.
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All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.
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Europe began as the relatively empty, uncivilized Wild West of Asia; then the Western Hemisphere became the Wild West of Europe. Now the sun has set in our West and risen once more in the East.
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After adolescence, if one’s life is sufficiently interesting, the desire to tell oneself stories diminishes.
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Write something, even if it’s just a suicide note.
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