Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.
GORE VIDALI hate nobody.
More Gore Vidal Quotes
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In character, as it were, the writer settles for an impression of what happened rather than creating the sense of the thing happening.
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The United States is the only civilized country in the world to class its teachers at the bottom of the social scale.
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It’s always best to stay out of other people’s divorces. And their civil wars.
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Jews, blacks and homosexuals are despised by the Christian and Communist majorities of East and West. Also, as a result of the invention of Israel, Jews can now count on the hatred of the Islamic world.
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Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both die.
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I never wanted to be a writer. I mean, that’s the last thing I wanted.
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I was like everyone else when Obama was elected – optimistic.
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From April 1775 to July 1776, the undeclared war between England and its American colonies smoldered, flared up, appeared to sputter out… It was hardly, ever, a mass rebellion.
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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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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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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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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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What I like least about myself is my belligerence.
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Love is not my bag.
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Baseball is the favorite American sport because it’s so slow. Any idiot can follow it. And just about any idiot can play it.
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