Like the TV networks, once our government has a hit, it will be repeated over and over again.
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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Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both die.
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The truth about Pearl Harbour is obscured to this day. But it has been much studied.
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Americans, in general, are ignorant, bigoted, and deeply unhappy with their declining incomes.
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Policemen are seldom tried for their crimes, or indeed, held responsible for what they do, which disturbs the peace and causes distress among the orderly.
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Having no contemporaries left means you cannot say, ‘Well, so-and-so will like this,’ which you do when you’re younger. You realize there is no so-and-so anymore. You are your own so-and-so. There is a bleak side to it.
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Sex is. There is nothing more to be done about it. Sex builds no roads, writes no novels and sex certainly gives no meaning to anything in life but itself.
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I am only at home in the present.
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We must declare ourselves, become known; allow the world to discover this subterranean life of ours which connects kings and farm boys, artists and clerks. Let them see that the important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.
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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.
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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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As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.
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Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.
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I don’t even read most reviews, unless there is a potential lawsuit on view.
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By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he’s been bought ten times over.
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It is always a delicate matter, when a friend or acquaintance becomes president.
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