Corporations must pay tax.
GORE VIDALAll children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.
More Gore Vidal Quotes
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Between fourteen and nineteen, I must have begun and abandoned six novels.
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Ayn Rand is a rhetorician who writes novels I have never been able to read.
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To preserve the human race, it is now necessary to reorganize society. To this end, an Authority must be created with the power to control human population, to redistribute food, to purify air, water, soil, to re-pattern the cities.
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Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they’re scraping the top of the barrel.
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Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.
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I’ve yet to read a memoir by anyone I’ve known at all well that came anywhere near to the truth.
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The United States was founded by the brightest people in the country – and we haven’t seen them since.
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I know a lot of the Annapolis breed.
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Of all recent presidents, Clinton was expected to behave the most sensibly in economic matters. He understood how the economy works. But because he had used various dodges to stay out of the Vietnam War, he came to office ill at ease with the military.
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Temperamentally, I am suspicious of belonging to anything. When I ran for office, I debated seriously whether or not to run as an independent because I was not eager to be saddled with the Democratic Party, because any party label is committing.
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You hear all this whining going on, ‘Where are our great writers?’ The thing I might feel doleful about is: Where are the readers?
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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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Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.
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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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Since we have literally targeted our enemies, the Pentagon assumes that, sooner or later, rogues will take out our cities, presumably from spaceships.
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