That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers.
GORE VIDALI 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.’
More Gore Vidal Quotes
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I hate nobody.
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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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From April 1775 to July 1776, the undeclared war between England and its American colonies smoldered, flared up, appeared to sputter out… It was hardly, ever, a mass rebellion.
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As for civil liberties, any one who is not vigilant may one day find himself living, if not in a police state, at least in a police city.
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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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What the police in their ignorance have not figured out is that they have lost all credibility since World War II. They are sort of parasites on the fringe of society and do no particular good for anyone except possibly themselves.
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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
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Democracy is supposed to give you the feeling of choice, like Painkiller X and Painkiller Y. But they’re both just aspirin.
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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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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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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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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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We’re not a democracy.
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As a schoolboy, I read most of Carl Sandburg’s six-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln.
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I cannot remember when I was not fascinated by Henry Adams.
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