It’s always best to stay out of other people’s divorces. And their civil wars.
GORE VIDALI know a lot of the Annapolis breed.
More Gore Vidal Quotes
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Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.
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Jack Kennedy very much enjoyed Fletcher Knebel’s thriller ‘Seven Days in May,’ later a film. The story: a jingo based on the real-life Admiral Arthur Radford plans a military coup to take over the White House.
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Never have children, only grandchildren.
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A racial or religious or tribal identity is a kind of fact.
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In character, as it were, the writer settles for an impression of what happened rather than creating the sense of the thing happening.
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The United States is a madhouse.
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Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.
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Envy is the central fact of American life.
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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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We’re not a democracy.
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From April 1775 to July 1776, the undeclared war between England and its American colonies smoldered, flared up, appeared to sputter out… It was hardly, ever, a mass rebellion.
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I’m all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.
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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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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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You cannot deprive somebody of life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, because that is a right – constitutional right.
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