Gore Vidal Quotes

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Gore Vidal

Profession : Novelist

Birth : October 3, 1925

Most of our writers tend to be recorders.

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The human race is plainly nothing in eternity, but to us, in time, it is everything and ought not to die.

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World War II made prosperous the United States, which had been undergoing a depression for a dozen years, and made very rich those magnates and their managers who govern the republic - with many a wink - in the people's name.

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What I am is something unbearable for the world of journalism and the world of cliches. I'm a realist.

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I am told the Cheney-Bush team dislikes their junta being compared to the Nazis. If they ceased behaving like Nazis, no comparison would come to mind.

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Since we have literally targeted our enemies, the Pentagon assumes that, sooner or later, rogues will take out our cities, presumably from spaceships.

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Nearly everyone who goes into a campaign is not only eager for the place he hopes to fill but for what might come after.

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Does one ever read a politician's books?

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As a schoolboy, I read most of Carl Sandburg's six-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln.

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Every generation gets the Tiny Tim it deserves.

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I was like everyone else when Obama was elected - optimistic.

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A friend was surprised to hear me say that there was not one moment of my past that I would like to relive.

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I never wanted to be a writer. I mean, that's the last thing I wanted.

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The behaviour of President Bush on 11 September certainly gives rise to not unnatural suspicions.

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Now you have people in Washington who have no interest in the country at all. They're interested in their companies, their corporations grabbing Caspian oil.

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In actual fact, I have always been a conservative cross, borne sadly by liberal friends.

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Americans have no idea of the extent of their government's mischief... the number of military strikes we have made unprovoked, against other countries, since 1947 is more than 250.

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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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Both Marx and Christ agree that in this life, a right action is consideration for the welfare of others.

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In the German concentration camps, Jews wore yellow stars while homosexuals wore pink lambdas.

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