Americans have no idea of the extent of their government’s mischief… the number of military strikes we have made unprovoked, against other countries, since 1947 is more than 250.
GORE VIDALIn character, as it were, the writer settles for an impression of what happened rather than creating the sense of the thing happening.
More Gore Vidal Quotes
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I know a lot of the Annapolis breed.
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The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.
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Write something, even if it’s just a suicide note.
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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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There is only one party in the United States: the Property party… and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat.
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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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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
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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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Like the TV networks, once our government has a hit, it will be repeated over and over again.
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The Pentagon talks about our power to ‘overkill’ Russia ten times, twenty times, perhaps forty-eight times. For my tax money, it is sufficient to overkill them once.
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Ayn Rand is a rhetorician who writes novels I have never been able to read.
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Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.
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Until very recently, the artist was a magician who did his magic in public view but kept himself and his effects a matter of mystery.
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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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A racial or religious or tribal identity is a kind of fact.
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