Never have children, only grandchildren.
GORE VIDALBy the time a man gets to be presidential material, he’s been bought ten times over.
More Gore Vidal Quotes
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Every country should have at least one King Farouk.
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To preserve the human race, it is now necessary to reorganize society. To this end, an Authority must be created with the power to control human population, to redistribute food, to purify air, water, soil, to re-pattern the cities.
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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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When I say ‘president,’ I still mean Roosevelt – wisely, I think.
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I’m always an optimist!
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I am not, at heart, a playwright.
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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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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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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
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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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The unfed mind devours itself.
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The truth about Pearl Harbour is obscured to this day. But it has been much studied.
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What I like least about myself is my belligerence.
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For the record, I’m a Second World War veteran and served in the Pacific.
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Policemen are seldom tried for their crimes, or indeed, held responsible for what they do, which disturbs the peace and causes distress among the orderly.
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