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.
GORE VIDALThe American high school graduate is two years behind his English, French or German counterpart; in Alabama, God knows how far behind.
More Gore Vidal Quotes
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To invent a war means that you’ve become a wartime president, and you can suspend much if not all of the Bill of Rights.
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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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Washington turned a blind eye to Al-Qaeda.
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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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Both Marx and Christ agree that in this life, a right action is consideration for the welfare of others.
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Nearly everyone who goes into a campaign is not only eager for the place he hopes to fill but for what might come after.
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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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Never have children, only grandchildren.
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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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There is only one party in the United States: the Property party… and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat.
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Ayn Rand is a rhetorician who writes novels I have never been able to read.
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Obama just came swiftly out of nowhere, which was a relief to those of us who care about the Republic, and at first he seemed a very good thing.
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I can understand companionship.
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I’m always an optimist!
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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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