Americans, in general, are ignorant, bigoted, and deeply unhappy with their declining incomes.
GORE VIDALBaseball is the favorite American sport because it’s so slow. Any idiot can follow it. And just about any idiot can play it.
More Gore Vidal Quotes
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Everything’s wrong on Wikipedia.
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In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you’re a great writer, you must say that you are.
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I’m a fervent foe of water pollution, whether it is our own Hudson River or Philadelphia’s tap water.
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When I say ‘president,’ I still mean Roosevelt – wisely, I think.
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We are pleased to dismiss politics as entirely corrupt, if not financially, intellectually.
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History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true.
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The American high school graduate is two years behind his English, French or German counterpart; in Alabama, God knows how far behind.
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The United States is a madhouse.
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It’s odd to meet a rather elderly man who says, ‘I’ve been reading you all my life.’ It makes you feel a slight chill.
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There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.
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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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He who is last had best laugh.
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In character, as it were, the writer settles for an impression of what happened rather than creating the sense of the thing happening.
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I never said I was gay, because I don’t think anyone is.
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By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he’s been bought ten times over.
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