All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world.
GORE VIDALWriting fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.
More Gore Vidal Quotes
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Everything’s wrong on Wikipedia.
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What I am is something unbearable for the world of journalism and the world of cliches. I’m a realist.
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There is only one party in the United States: the Property party… and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat.
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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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Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.
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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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The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.
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History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true.
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Fifty percent of people won’t vote, and fifty percent don’t read newspapers. I hope it’s the same fifty percent.
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On September 5, 1774, forty-five of the weightiest colonial men formed the First Continental Congress at Philadelphia.
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Until very recently, the artist was a magician who did his magic in public view but kept himself and his effects a matter of mystery.
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It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true.
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Between fourteen and nineteen, I must have begun and abandoned six novels.
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The first grown-up book that I read on my own was a nineteenth-century edition of ‘Tales from Livy’ that I’d found in my grandfather’s library.
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I am told the Cheney-Bush team dislikes their junta being compared to the Nazis. If they ceased behaving like Nazis, no comparison would come to mind.
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