He who is last had best laugh.
GORE VIDALAt any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation and prejudice.
More Gore Vidal Quotes
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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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To a man, ornithologists are tall, slender, and bearded so that they can stand motionless for hours, imitating kindly trees, as they watch for birds.
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I’m all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.
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I never said I was gay, because I don’t think anyone is.
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I think I have a normal threshold of anger, but it’s true that I am, by nature, belligerent.
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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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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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I don’t even read most reviews, unless there is a potential lawsuit on view.
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In the writing of novels, there is the problem of how to shape a narrative.
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We must declare ourselves, become known; allow the world to discover this subterranean life of ours which connects kings and farm boys, artists and clerks. Let them see that the important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.
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Does one ever read a politician’s books?
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I’m not a conspiracy theorist – I’m a conspiracy analyst.
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Gossip is conversation about people.
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The media can’t get anything straight.
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I am a novelist turned temporary adventurer, and I chose to write television, movies and plays for much the same reason that Henry Morgan selected the Spanish Main for his peculiar – and not dissimilar – sphere of operations.
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