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GORE VIDALThe unfed mind devours itself.
More Gore Vidal Quotes
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Remember, I’m West Point, where I was born. My father went there.
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The United States is a madhouse.
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Anybody who is stupid enough to want to be remembered deserves to be forgotten right now.
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Like the TV networks, once our government has a hit, it will be repeated over and over again.
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At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation and prejudice.
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I’m all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.
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Some of my father’s fellow West Pointers once asked him why I turned out so well, his secret in raising me. And he said, ‘I never gave him any advice, and he never asked for any.’ We agreed on nothing, but we never quarreled once.
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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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As the age of television progresses the Reagans will be the rule, not the exception. To be perfect for television is all a President has to be these days.
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Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.
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I cannot remember when I was not fascinated by Henry Adams.
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Jack Kennedy very much enjoyed Fletcher Knebel’s thriller ‘Seven Days in May,’ later a film. The story: a jingo based on the real-life Admiral Arthur Radford plans a military coup to take over the White House.
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As for civil liberties, any one who is not vigilant may one day find himself living, if not in a police state, at least in a police city.
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I’m always an optimist!
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In writing and politicking, it’s best not to think about it, just do it.
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