We’re not a democracy.
GORE VIDALFor the record, I’m a Second World War veteran and served in the Pacific.
More Gore Vidal Quotes
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The media can’t get anything straight.
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There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.
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I could be a lot happier. I could be the senator from Aerospace taking bribes, and be quite happy.
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Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.
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It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true.
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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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That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president.
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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.
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To a man, ornithologists are tall, slender, and bearded so that they can stand motionless for hours, imitating kindly trees, as they watch for birds.
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He who is last had best laugh.
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Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.
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The unfed mind devours itself.
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Some have deplored Lincoln’s indifference to Christianity. But it was not religion, it was religiosity that put him off.
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I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
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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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