As for my support for Obama, remember that I was brought up in Washington. It was an all-black city when I was a kid. And I’ve always been very pro-African-American – or whatever phrase we now use.
GORE VIDALTo 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.
More Gore Vidal Quotes
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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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In writing and politicking, it’s best not to think about it, just do it.
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The media can’t get anything straight.
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The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.
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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 can understand companionship.
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Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.
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Jack Kennedy very much enjoyed Fletcher Knebel’s thriller ‘Seven Days in May,’ later a film. The story: a jingo based on the real-life Admiral Arthur Radford plans a military coup to take over the White House.
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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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There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.
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Everything’s wrong on Wikipedia.
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In the writing of novels, there is the problem of how to shape a narrative.
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Each youth betrays considerable anxiety about the wedding night ahead.
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There is no such thing as a homosexual or a heterosexual person. There are only homo- or heterosexual acts. Most people are a mixture of impulses if not practices.
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I’m not paranoid, no. I’m different in that I have enemies. Very real ones.
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