Gore Vidal Quotes - Page 5

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• In almost every case (where the United States has fought wars) our overwhelming commitment to freedom, democracy and human rights has required us to support those regimes that would deny freedom, democracy and human rights to their own people.

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  War, Commitment, Rights

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• It is curious how often one prefers his enemies to his friends.

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  Enemy, Curious

  Gore Vidal (1969). “Reflections Upon a Sinking Ship. (1. Ed.)”, Boston : Little, Brown

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• Who gives a damn about being remembered? That's really for amateurs.

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  Giving, Damn, Remembered

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• The fool is often oblivious of his own gaucherie.

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  Stupidity, Fool, Oblivious

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• First coffee, then a bowel movement. Then the Muse joins me.

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  Coffee, Movement, Firsts

  Gore Vidal, Richard Peabody, Lucinda Ebersole (2005). “Conversations with Gore Vidal”, p.59, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Big oil, big steel, big agriculture avoid the open marketplace. Big corporations fix prices among themselves and thus drive out of business the small entrepreneur. Also, in their conglomerate form, the huge corporations have begun to challenge the very legitimacy of the state.

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  Oil, Agriculture, Entrepreneur

  Gore Vidal (1978). “Matters of fact and of fiction: essays, 1973-1976”, Vintage

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• Those who have not undergone minor disasters are usually being held in reserve for something major

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  Disaster, Minors, Reserves

  Gore Vidal (2002). “Creation: a novel”, Doubleday Books

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• Nothing human is finally calculable; even to ourselves we are strange.

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  Strange, Humans

  FaceBook post by Gore Vidal from Sep 06, 2014

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• Since there is no system of public education, the great majority of my fellow citizens is frighteningly ignorant. They have no idea where Iraq is. They accept as the gospel whatever the government tells them. Good grief, any other normal country would have been against the Iraq war! But we live in an abnormal country, governed by experts in deceptive advertising.

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  Country, War, Grief

  "The End of Gore Vidal". Interview with Lila Azam Zanganeh, www.guernicamag.com. August 15, 2012.

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• Congress no longer declares war or makes budgets. So that's the end of the constitution as a working machine.

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  War, Machines, Constitution

  "America First? America Last? America at Last?". Lowell Lecture, Harvard University, April 20, 1992.

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• There's no such thing as a war against terrorism. It's idiotic. These are slogans. These are lies. It's advertising, which is the only art form we ever invented and developed.

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  Art, Lying, War

  "Gore Vidal on the Media and the American People". Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. August 1, 2012.

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• Because there is no cosmic point to the life that each of us perceives on this distant bit of dust at galaxy's edge, all the more reason for us to maintain in proper balance what we have here. Because there is nothing else. Nothing. This is it. And quite enough, all in all.

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  Dust, Balance, Reason

  Gore Vidal (1987). “Armageddon?: essays 1983-1987”, Andre Deutsch Ltd

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• One is sorry one could not have taken both branches of the road. But we were not allotted multiple selves.

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  Sorry, Taken, Self

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• Fifty percent of people won't vote, and fifty percent don't read newspapers. I hope it's the same fifty percent.

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  People, Political, Fifty

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• In the town of Ravella, where I have a house, when the Supreme Court said that an act of sodomy, as they describe it, could not be committed between a man and his wife, the entire square burst into laughter.

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  Laughter, Men, Squares

  "Fresh Air Remembers Writer And Critic Gore Vidal". www.npr.org. August 2, 2012.

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• As Brooks Adams put it, the sole problem of our ruling class is whether to coerce or to bribe the powerless majority.

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  Class, Majority, Problem

  Gore Vidal (2004). “Imperial America: Reflections on the United States of Amnesia”, p.45, CLAIRVIEW BOOKS

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• Since nothing is free, to each his price.

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  GORE VIDAL (1964). “JULIAN”

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• The creation of a work of art, like an act of love, is our one small 'yes' at the center of a vast 'no.'

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  Art, Love Is, Creation

  Gore Vidal (1968). “Sex, Death, and Money”

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• Rome ... at its most decadent, had never thought of hiring an actor to go through the motions of being an emperor while the Praetorian Guard ruled.

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  Rome, Political, Actors

  Gore Vidal (1998). “The American presidency”, Common Courage Pr

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• I assume that the point of American democracy is you can express any point of view you want.

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  Views, Democracy, Want

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I’m not sentimental about anything. Life flows by, and you flow with it or you don’t. Move on and move out.

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  Death, Moving, Dying

  "For Gore Vidal, A Last, Long Look From the Heights" by Joseph Giovannini, www.nytimes.com. August 26, 2004.

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• Eisenhower managed to begin the Vietnam war by not following his normal instinct of staying out of mischief. In his memoirs, he tells us why we didn't honor the Geneva accords and hold elections in Vietnam: because some 80 percent of the country would have voted for Ho Chi Minh. This is very candid. The sort of thing one might have found in Stalin'smemoirs, had he not made ghosts even of ghosts.

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  Country, War, Honor

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

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  Genius, Literature, Warhol

  "Gore Vidal quotes: 26 of the best", www.theguardian.com. August 1, 2012.

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• Half the American population no longer reads newspapers: plainly, they are the clever half.

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  Clever, Population, Half

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

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  Money, Interesting, More Money

  "Gore Vidal quotes: 26 of the best", www.theguardian.com. August 1, 2012.

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