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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By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he’s been bought ten times over.
More Gore Vidal Quotes
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Today’s public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can’t read them either.
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We are pleased to dismiss politics as entirely corrupt, if not financially, intellectually.
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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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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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Americans, in general, are ignorant, bigoted, and deeply unhappy with their declining incomes.
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I cannot remember when I was not fascinated by Henry Adams.
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As for civil liberties, any one who is not vigilant may one day find himself living, if not in a police state, at least in a police city.
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The behaviour of President Bush on 11 September certainly gives rise to not unnatural suspicions.
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The United States was founded by the brightest people in the country – and we haven’t seen them since.
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What other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke?
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Write something, even if it’s just a suicide note.
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There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.
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