The Pentagon talks about our power to ‘overkill’ Russia ten times, twenty times, perhaps forty-eight times. For my tax money, it is sufficient to overkill them once.
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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Both Marx and Christ agree that in this life, a right action is consideration for the welfare of others.
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Today’s public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can’t read them either.
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Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.
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I am not, at heart, a playwright.
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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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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
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Baseball is the favorite American sport because it’s so slow. Any idiot can follow it. And just about any idiot can play it.
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Write something, even if it’s just a suicide note.
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All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.
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While campaigning, I got to know many high-school teachers, and let me say that the good ones are the unsung heroes of our society, and the bad ones are the gravediggers.
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Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest 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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Corporations must pay tax.
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We’re not a democracy.
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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.
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