All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world.
GORE VIDALEurope began as the relatively empty, uncivilized Wild West of Asia; then the Western Hemisphere became the Wild West of Europe. Now the sun has set in our West and risen once more in the East.
More Gore Vidal Quotes
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Each youth betrays considerable anxiety about the wedding night ahead.
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Nearly everyone who goes into a campaign is not only eager for the place he hopes to fill but for what might come after.
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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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Write something, even if it’s just a suicide note.
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One is sorry one could not have taken both branches of the road. But we were not allotted multiple selves.
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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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My father had lifelong contempt for politicians.
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In essence, Clinton’s Anti-Terrorism Act would set up a national police force, over the long-dead bodies of the founders.
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If you are a Representative and want to be a Senator, you must be careful not to do anything which might upset the various forces you need to harness to get elected.
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What is in question is a kind of book reviewing which seems to be more and more popular: the loose putting down of opinions as though they were facts, and the treating of facts as though they were opinions.
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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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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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I’m always an optimist!
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The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.
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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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