I know a lot of the Annapolis breed.
GORE VIDALI could be a lot happier. I could be the senator from Aerospace taking bribes, and be quite happy.
More Gore Vidal Quotes
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Temperamentally, I am suspicious of belonging to anything. When I ran for office, I debated seriously whether or not to run as an independent because I was not eager to be saddled with the Democratic Party, because any party label is committing.
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After adolescence, if one’s life is sufficiently interesting, the desire to tell oneself stories diminishes.
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I cannot remember when I was not fascinated by Henry Adams.
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I was the most famous kid in the United States. That was 1936.
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Every country should have at least one King Farouk.
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Sex is. There is nothing more to be done about it. Sex builds no roads, writes no novels and sex certainly gives no meaning to anything in life but itself.
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Primarily, I am a prose writer with axes to grind, and the theatre is a good place to do the grinding in. I prefer comedy to ‘serious’ drama because I believe one can get the ax sharper on the comedic stone.
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Anybody who is stupid enough to want to be remembered deserves to be forgotten right now.
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Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made.
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The unfed mind devours itself.
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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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There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.
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Policemen are seldom tried for their crimes, or indeed, held responsible for what they do, which disturbs the peace and causes distress among the orderly.
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The truth about Pearl Harbour is obscured to this day. But it has been much studied.
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All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world.
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