Remember, I’m West Point, where I was born. My father went there.
GORE VIDALI can understand companionship.
More Gore Vidal Quotes
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Envy is the central fact of American life.
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Every country should have at least one King Farouk.
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Certainly ‘The Judgment of Paris’ was the novel in which I found my own voice.
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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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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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At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation and prejudice.
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Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.
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Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they’re scraping the top of the barrel.
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All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.
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Of all recent presidents, Clinton was expected to behave the most sensibly in economic matters. He understood how the economy works. But because he had used various dodges to stay out of the Vietnam War, he came to office ill at ease with the military.
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Corporations must pay tax.
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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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The only thing that I react really violently to is being misquoted.
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After adolescence, if one’s life is sufficiently interesting, the desire to tell oneself stories diminishes.
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What the police in their ignorance have not figured out is that they have lost all credibility since World War II. They are sort of parasites on the fringe of society and do no particular good for anyone except possibly themselves.
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I 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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One is sorry one could not have taken both branches of the road. But we were not allotted multiple selves.
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A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.
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I was the most famous kid in the United States. That was 1936.
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Obama just came swiftly out of nowhere, which was a relief to those of us who care about the Republic, and at first he seemed a very good thing.
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The Turner Diaries’ is a racist daydream by a former physics teacher writing under the pseudonym Andrew Macdonald.
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You cannot deprive somebody of life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, because that is a right – constitutional right.
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The greatest pleasure when I started making money was not buying cars or yachts but finding myself able to have as many freshly typed drafts as possible.
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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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Never have children, only grandchildren.
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The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.
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