Some of my father’s fellow West Pointers once asked him why I turned out so well, his secret in raising me. And he said, ‘I never gave him any advice, and he never asked for any.’ We agreed on nothing, but we never quarreled once.
GORE VIDALLitigation takes the place of sex at middle age.
More Gore Vidal Quotes
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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.
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In the German concentration camps, Jews wore yellow stars while homosexuals wore pink lambdas.
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As a schoolboy, I read most of Carl Sandburg’s six-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln.
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He who is last had best laugh.
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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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I am only at home in the present.
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Certainly ‘The Judgment of Paris’ was the novel in which I found my own voice.
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There is no such thing as a homosexual or a heterosexual person. There are only homo- or heterosexual acts. Most people are a mixture of impulses if not practices.
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Corporations must pay tax.
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Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.
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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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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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That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers.
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I cannot remember when I was not fascinated by Henry Adams.
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I know a lot of the Annapolis breed.
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