Gore Vidal ,quotes

I'm all for bringing back the ...

I'm all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.

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The more money an American acc...

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

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The behaviour of President Bus...

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

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What other culture could have ...

What other culture could have produced someone like Hemmingway and not seen the joke?

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Litigation takes the place of ...

Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.

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To a man, ornithologists are t...

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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Many writers who choose to be ...

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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Some writers take to drink, ot...

Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.

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Television is now so desperate...

Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they're scraping the top of the barrel.

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That is sad until one recalls ...

That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers.

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That loyal retainer of the Cha...

That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president.

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There is something about a bur...

There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.

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Writing fiction has become a p...

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

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As the age of television progr...

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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Now you have people in Washing...

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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The greatest pleasure when I s...

The greatest pleasure when I started making money was not buying cars or yachts but finding myself able to have as many freshly typed drafts as possible.

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Sex is. There is nothing more ...

Sex is. There is nothing more to be done about it. Sex builds no roads, writes no novels and sex certainly gives no meaning to anything in life but itself.

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Until the rise of American adv...

Until the rise of American advertising, it never occurred to anyone anywhere in the world that the teenager was a captive in a hostile world of adults.

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What is in question is a kind ...

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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'Politics' is made up of two w...

'Politics' is made up of two words, 'poli,' which is Greek for 'many,' and 'tics,' which are blood-sucking insects.

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