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.
GORE VIDALHalf of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.
More Gore Vidal Quotes
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Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.
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I never said I was gay, because I don’t think anyone is.
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Washington turned a blind eye to Al-Qaeda.
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Envy is the central fact of American life.
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All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world.
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Anybody who is stupid enough to want to be remembered deserves to be forgotten right now.
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Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.
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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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The greatest pleasure when I started making money was not buying cars or yachts but finding myself able to have as many freshly typed drafts as possible.
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To invent a war means that you’ve become a wartime president, and you can suspend much if not all of the Bill of Rights.
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As for my support for Obama, remember that I was brought up in Washington. It was an all-black city when I was a kid. And I’ve always been very pro-African-American – or whatever phrase we now use.
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Remember, I’m West Point, where I was born. My father went there.
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There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.
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American history has fallen more and more into the hands of academics.
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All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.
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