Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.
GORE VIDALFor the record, I’m a Second World War veteran and served in the Pacific.
More Gore Vidal Quotes
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Write something, even if it’s just a suicide note.
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When I say ‘president,’ I still mean Roosevelt – wisely, I think.
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I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
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Does one ever read a politician’s books?
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There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.
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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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Remember, I’m West Point, where I was born. My father went there.
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I’m exactly as I appear. There is no warm, lovable person inside. Beneath my cold exterior, once you break the ice, you find cold water.
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Envy is the central fact of American life.
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I hate nobody.
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The truth about Pearl Harbour is obscured to this day. But it has been much studied.
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Ayn Rand is a rhetorician who writes novels I have never been able to read.
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The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.
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In classical times, it was a capital offense to speculate upon the hour of a king’s death or upon the identity of his successor.
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Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.
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