It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
GORE VIDALI remember the Bond movies when I was a child. They were silent then.
More Gore Vidal Quotes
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A racial or religious or tribal identity is a kind of fact.
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Until very recently, the artist was a magician who did his magic in public view but kept himself and his effects a matter of mystery.
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The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.
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In character, as it were, the writer settles for an impression of what happened rather than creating the sense of the thing happening.
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The unfed mind devours itself.
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Having no contemporaries left means you cannot say, ‘Well, so-and-so will like this,’ which you do when you’re younger. You realize there is no so-and-so anymore. You are your own so-and-so. There is a bleak side to it.
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I never said I was gay, because I don’t think anyone is.
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I am not, at heart, a playwright.
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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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That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president.
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Every country should have at least one King Farouk.
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There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.
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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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We are pleased to dismiss politics as entirely corrupt, if not financially, intellectually.
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Corporations must pay tax.
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