All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.
GORE VIDALSince we have literally targeted our enemies, the Pentagon assumes that, sooner or later, rogues will take out our cities, presumably from spaceships.
More Gore Vidal Quotes
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Actually, I can’t remember when I was not writing.
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Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they’re scraping the top of the barrel.
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I cannot remember when I was not fascinated by Henry Adams.
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For the record, I’m a Second World War veteran and served in the Pacific.
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There’s a lot to be said for being nouveau riche, and the Reagans mean to say it all.
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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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Obama just came swiftly out of nowhere, which was a relief to those of us who care about the Republic, and at first he seemed a very good thing.
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The greatest pleasure when I started making money was not buying cars or yachts but finding myself able to have as many freshly typed drafts as possible.
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All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world.
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I was raised in the Washington household of my grandfather Senator Thomas P. Gore of Oklahoma, and have known politicians intimately all my life.
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Certainly ‘The Judgment of Paris’ was the novel in which I found my own voice.
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Anybody who is stupid enough to want to be remembered deserves to be forgotten right now.
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The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.
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As a schoolboy, I read most of Carl Sandburg’s six-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln.
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Love is not my bag.
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