The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.
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I know a lot of the Annapolis breed.
Gore VidalGore Vidal To get people to do needed things is the perennial hard task of government, not to mention of religion and philosophy.
Gore VidalGore Vidal Jews, blacks and homosexuals are despised by the Christian and Communist majorities of East and West. Also, as a result of the invention of Israel, Jews can now count on the hatred of the Islamic world.
Gore VidalGore Vidal In the German concentration camps, Jews wore yellow stars while homosexuals wore pink lambdas.
Gore VidalGore Vidal Europe began as the relatively empty, uncivilized Wild West of Asia; then the Western Hemisphere became the Wild West of Europe. Now the sun has set in our West and risen once more in the East.
Gore VidalGore Vidal 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 VidalGore Vidal 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.
Gore VidalGore Vidal The Turner Diaries’ is a racist daydream by a former physics teacher writing under the pseudonym Andrew Macdonald.
Gore VidalGore Vidal On September 5, 1774, forty-five of the weightiest colonial men formed the First Continental Congress at Philadelphia.
Gore VidalGore Vidal The media can’t get anything straight.
Gore VidalGore Vidal I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
Gore VidalGore Vidal Like the TV networks, once our government has a hit, it will be repeated over and over again.
Gore VidalGore Vidal Now you have people in Washington who have no interest in the country at all. They’re interested in their companies, their corporations grabbing Caspian oil.
Gore VidalGore Vidal Having no contemporaries left means you cannot say, ‘Well, so-and-so will like this,’ which you do when you’re younger. You realize there is no so-and-so anymore. You are your own so-and-so. There is a bleak side to it.
Gore VidalGore Vidal By the end of World War II, we were the most powerful and least damaged of the great nations. We also had most of the money. America’s hegemony lasted exactly five years.
Gore VidalGore Vidal I’ve yet to read a memoir by anyone I’ve known at all well that came anywhere near to the truth.
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