Love is not my bag.
GORE VIDALI am a novelist turned temporary adventurer, and I chose to write television, movies and plays for much the same reason that Henry Morgan selected the Spanish Main for his peculiar – and not dissimilar – sphere of operations.
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The first grown-up book that I read on my own was a nineteenth-century edition of ‘Tales from Livy’ that I’d found in my grandfather’s library.
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Everything’s wrong on Wikipedia.
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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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We are pleased to dismiss politics as entirely corrupt, if not financially, intellectually.
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What I like least about myself is my belligerence.
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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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The media can’t get anything straight.
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It is always a delicate matter, when a friend or acquaintance becomes president.
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If you are a Representative and want to be a Senator, you must be careful not to do anything which might upset the various forces you need to harness to get elected.
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The United States is the only civilized country in the world to class its teachers at the bottom of the social scale.
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I’m not a conspiracy theorist – I’m a conspiracy analyst.
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It is essential to naturalist doctrine that literature, to be good, must, finally, be the author’s experience worked out literally.
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Never have children, only grandchildren.
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There’s a lot to be said for being nouveau riche, and the Reagans mean to say it all.
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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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