Never have children, only grandchildren.
GORE VIDALCertainly ‘The Judgment of Paris’ was the novel in which I found my own voice.
More Gore Vidal Quotes
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Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.
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At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation and prejudice.
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The American high school graduate is two years behind his English, French or German counterpart; in Alabama, God knows how far behind.
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Remember, I’m West Point, where I was born. My father went there.
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What is in question is a kind of book reviewing which seems to be more and more popular: the loose putting down of opinions as though they were facts, and the treating of facts as though they were opinions.
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Fifty percent of people won’t vote, and fifty percent don’t read newspapers. I hope it’s the same fifty percent.
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From April 1775 to July 1776, the undeclared war between England and its American colonies smoldered, flared up, appeared to sputter out… It was hardly, ever, a mass rebellion.
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Jack Kennedy very much enjoyed Fletcher Knebel’s thriller ‘Seven Days in May,’ later a film. The story: a jingo based on the real-life Admiral Arthur Radford plans a military coup to take over the White House.
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The only thing that I react really violently to is being misquoted.
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We’re not a democracy.
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In essence, Clinton’s Anti-Terrorism Act would set up a national police force, over the long-dead bodies of the founders.
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Baseball is the favorite American sport because it’s so slow. Any idiot can follow it. And just about any idiot can play it.
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American history has fallen more and more into the hands of academics.
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I’ve yet to read a memoir by anyone I’ve known at all well that came anywhere near to the truth.
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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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