I could be a lot happier. I could be the senator from Aerospace taking bribes, and be quite happy.
GORE VIDALWhen I say ‘president,’ I still mean Roosevelt – wisely, I think.
More Gore Vidal Quotes
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Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.
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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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I never said I was gay, because I don’t think anyone is.
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I hate nobody.
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Boys don’t like girls around when they do boy things.
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I am not, at heart, a playwright.
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Between fourteen and nineteen, I must have begun and abandoned six novels.
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Some of my father’s fellow West Pointers once asked him why I turned out so well, his secret in raising me. And he said, ‘I never gave him any advice, and he never asked for any.’ We agreed on nothing, but we never quarreled once.
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Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.
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By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he’s been bought ten times over.
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I’m all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.
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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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I think I have a normal threshold of anger, but it’s true that I am, by nature, belligerent.
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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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Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.
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