Corporations must pay tax.
GORE VIDALI’m not paranoid, no. I’m different in that I have enemies. Very real ones.
More Gore Vidal Quotes
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Democracy is supposed to give you the feeling of choice, like Painkiller X and Painkiller Y. But they’re both just aspirin.
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Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.
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Some have deplored Lincoln’s indifference to Christianity. But it was not religion, it was religiosity that put him off.
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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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World War II made prosperous the United States, which had been undergoing a depression for a dozen years, and made very rich those magnates and their managers who govern the republic – with many a wink – in the people’s name.
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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
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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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Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.
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It is essential to naturalist doctrine that literature, to be good, must, finally, be the author’s experience worked out literally.
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All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.
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Europe 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.
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Primarily, I am a prose writer with axes to grind, and the theatre is a good place to do the grinding in. I prefer comedy to ‘serious’ drama because I believe one can get the ax sharper on the comedic stone.
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Does one ever read a politician’s books?
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American history has fallen more and more into the hands of academics.
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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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