Gore Vidal Quotes

By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he’s been bought ten times over.
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Material President
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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Order Police Responsibility
I remember the Bond movies when I was a child. They were silent then.
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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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Civil Police
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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Loose Popular Review
Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they’re scraping the top of the barrel.
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Material Media Top
Every country should have at least one King Farouk.
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Oneself
Americans, in general, are ignorant, bigoted, and deeply unhappy with their declining incomes.
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Decline Sadness
There’s a lot to be said for being nouveau riche, and the Reagans mean to say it all.
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It is essential to naturalist doctrine that literature, to be good, must, finally, be the author’s experience worked out literally.
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