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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The Turner Diaries’ is a racist daydream by a former physics teacher writing under the pseudonym Andrew Macdonald.
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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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There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.
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The only thing that I react really violently to is being misquoted.
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That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president.
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Boys don’t like girls around when they do boy things.
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What I like least about myself is my belligerence.
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The American high school graduate is two years behind his English, French or German counterpart; in Alabama, God knows how far behind.
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I remember the Bond movies when I was a child. They were silent then.
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I was the most famous kid in the United States. That was 1936.
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I was raised in the Washington household of my grandfather Senator Thomas P. Gore of Oklahoma, and have known politicians intimately all my life.
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On September 5, 1774, forty-five of the weightiest colonial men formed the First Continental Congress at Philadelphia.
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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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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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Until the rise of American advertising, it never occurred to anyone anywhere in the world that the teenager was a captive in a hostile world of adults.
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