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.
GORE VIDALI think I have a normal threshold of anger, but it’s true that I am, by nature, belligerent.
More Gore Vidal Quotes
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Corporations must pay tax.
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I hate nobody.
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Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made.
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The unfed mind devours itself.
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After adolescence, if one’s life is sufficiently interesting, the desire to tell oneself stories diminishes.
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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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A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.
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Like the TV networks, once our government has a hit, it will be repeated over and over again.
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That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president.
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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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Why not just eliminate the federal income tax?
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It is always a delicate matter, when a friend or acquaintance becomes president.
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Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.
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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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It is very difficult for a writer of my generation, if he is honest, to pretend indifference to the work of Somerset Maugham. He was always so entirely there.
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