Gore Vidal Quotes

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Gore Vidal

Profession : Novelist

Birth : October 3, 1925

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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All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world.

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On September 5, 1774, forty-five of the weightiest colonial men formed the First Continental Congress at Philadelphia.

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The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.

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I was raised in the Washington household of my grandfather Senator Thomas P. Gore of Oklahoma, and have known politicians intimately all my life.

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As the age of television progresses the Reagans will be the rule, not the exception. To be perfect for television is all a President has to be these days.

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Boys don't like girls around when they do boy things.

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I am not, at heart, a playwright.

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I think there is an instinct out there to rid us of our masters.

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Of all recent presidents, Clinton was expected to behave the most sensibly in economic matters. He understood how the economy works. But because he had used various dodges to stay out of the Vietnam War, he came to office ill at ease with the military.

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I know a lot of the Annapolis breed.

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He who is last had best laugh.

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Everything's wrong on Wikipedia.

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To a man, ornithologists are tall, slender, and bearded so that they can stand motionless for hours, imitating kindly trees, as they watch for birds.

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Andy Warhol is the only genius I've ever known with an I.Q. of 60.

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I didn't mean to spend my life writing American history, which should have been taught in the schools, but I saw no alternative but to taking it on myself. I could think of a lot of cheerier things I'd rather be doing than analyzing George Washington and Aaron Burr. But it came to pass, that was my job, so I did it.

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Democracy is supposed to give you the feeling of choice, like Painkiller X and Painkiller Y. But they're both just aspirin.

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Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.

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