I think I have a normal threshold of anger, but it’s true that I am, by nature, belligerent.
GORE VIDALDoes one ever read a politician’s books?
More Gore Vidal Quotes
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A racial or religious or tribal identity is a kind of fact.
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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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Between fourteen and nineteen, I must have begun and abandoned six novels.
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Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.
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What I like least about myself is my belligerence.
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Now you have people in Washington who have no interest in the country at all. They’re interested in their companies, their corporations grabbing Caspian oil.
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Anybody who is stupid enough to want to be remembered deserves to be forgotten right now.
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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
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Each youth betrays considerable anxiety about the wedding night ahead.
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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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I’m all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.
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We must declare ourselves, become known; allow the world to discover this subterranean life of ours which connects kings and farm boys, artists and clerks. Let them see that the important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.
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That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers.
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Ayn Rand is a rhetorician who writes novels I have never been able to read.
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As a schoolboy, I read most of Carl Sandburg’s six-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln.
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