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.
GORE VIDALThat is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers.
More Gore Vidal Quotes
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I remember the Bond movies when I was a child. They were silent then.
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I’m exactly as I appear. There is no warm, lovable person inside. Beneath my cold exterior, once you break the ice, you find cold water.
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Until the rise of American advertising, it never occurred to anyone anywhere in the world that the teenager was a captive in a hostile world of adults.
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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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The Turner Diaries’ is a racist daydream by a former physics teacher writing under the pseudonym Andrew Macdonald.
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I was like everyone else when Obama was elected – optimistic.
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It is always a delicate matter, when a friend or acquaintance becomes president.
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After adolescence, if one’s life is sufficiently interesting, the desire to tell oneself stories diminishes.
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I was raised in the Washington household of my grandfather Senator Thomas P. Gore of Oklahoma, and have known politicians intimately all my life.
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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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The greatest pleasure when I started making money was not buying cars or yachts but finding myself able to have as many freshly typed drafts as possible.
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I know a lot of the Annapolis breed.
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Americans, in general, are ignorant, bigoted, and deeply unhappy with their declining incomes.
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Every country should have at least one King Farouk.
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That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president.
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