It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true.
GORE VIDALThe four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.
More Gore Vidal Quotes
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Ayn Rand is a rhetorician who writes novels I have never been able to read.
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Americans, in general, are ignorant, bigoted, and deeply unhappy with their declining incomes.
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It’s always best to stay out of other people’s divorces. And their civil wars.
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That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president.
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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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On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.
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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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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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By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he’s been bought ten times over.
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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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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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If you are a Representative and want to be a Senator, you must be careful not to do anything which might upset the various forces you need to harness to get elected.
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It is very difficult for a writer of my generation, if he is honest, to pretend indifference to the work of Somerset Maugham. He was always so entirely there.
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Corporations must pay tax.
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