Some of my father’s fellow West Pointers once asked him why I turned out so well, his secret in raising me. And he said, ‘I never gave him any advice, and he never asked for any.’ We agreed on nothing, but we never quarreled once.
GORE VIDALLike the TV networks, once our government has a hit, it will be repeated over and over again.
More Gore Vidal Quotes
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The United States is a madhouse.
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I don’t even read most reviews, unless there is a potential lawsuit on view.
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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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Of all recent presidents, Clinton was expected to behave the most sensibly in economic matters. He understood how the economy works. But because he had used various dodges to stay out of the Vietnam War, he came to office ill at ease with the military.
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You hear all this whining going on, ‘Where are our great writers?’ The thing I might feel doleful about is: Where are the readers?
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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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I cannot remember when I was not fascinated by Henry Adams.
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I’m all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.
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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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The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.
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It is very difficult for a writer of my generation, if he is honest, to pretend indifference to the work of Somerset Maugham. He was always so entirely there.
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Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.
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He who is last had best laugh.
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Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.
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