That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president.
GORE VIDALWe’re not a democracy.
More Gore Vidal Quotes
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I’m not a conspiracy theorist – I’m a conspiracy analyst.
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He who is last had best laugh.
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I can understand companionship.
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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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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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You hear all this whining going on, ‘Where are our great writers?’ The thing I might feel doleful about is: Where are the readers?
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Today’s public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can’t read them either.
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The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity – much less dissent.
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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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In the writing of novels, there is the problem of how to shape a narrative.
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To get people to do needed things is the perennial hard task of government, not to mention of religion and philosophy.
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Never have children, only grandchildren.
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Envy is the central fact of American life.
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After adolescence, if one’s life is sufficiently interesting, the desire to tell oneself stories diminishes.
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Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.
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