I know a lot of the Annapolis breed.
GORE VIDALDoes one ever read a politician’s books?
More Gore Vidal Quotes
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I never wanted to be a writer. I mean, that’s the last thing I wanted.
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A friend was surprised to hear me say that there was not one moment of my past that I would like to relive.
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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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I was the most famous kid in the United States. That was 1936.
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In the writing of novels, there is the problem of how to shape a narrative.
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Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made.
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We’re not a democracy.
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In the German concentration camps, Jews wore yellow stars while homosexuals wore pink lambdas.
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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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Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.
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To preserve the human race, it is now necessary to reorganize society. To this end, an Authority must be created with the power to control human population, to redistribute food, to purify air, water, soil, to re-pattern the cities.
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Both Marx and Christ agree that in this life, a right action is consideration for the welfare of others.
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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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One is sorry one could not have taken both branches of the road. But we were not allotted multiple selves.
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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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