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" Europe began as the relatively empty, uncivilized Wild West of Asia; then the Western Hemisphere became the Wild West of Europe. Now the sun has set in our West and risen once more in the East. "

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" My father once said something very shrewd about me to a woman journalist who had told him how courageous she thought I was for always speaking my mind. My father said, 'If you couldn't care less what anyone says about you, then it's not courage.' "

Gore Vidal

Courage

Woman

Father

" The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity - much less dissent. "

" He who is last had best laugh. "

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Laugh

Who

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

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About

Does

" In character, as it were, the writer settles for an impression of what happened rather than creating the sense of the thing happening. "

" TV news is not very instructive. "

Gore Vidal

News

TV News

" When I say 'president,' I still mean Roosevelt - wisely, I think. "

" The United States is the only civilized country in the world to class its teachers at the bottom of the social scale. "

" It is a paradox of the acquisitive society in which we now live that although private morals are regulated by law, the entrepreneur is allowed considerable freedom to use - and abuse - the public in order to make money. "

" Like the TV networks, once our government has a hit, it will be repeated over and over again. "

" You hear all this whining going on, 'Where are our great writers?' The thing I might feel doleful about is: Where are the readers? "

" Each youth betrays considerable anxiety about the wedding night ahead. "

" The unfed mind devours itself. "

Gore Vidal

Mind

Itself

" 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. "

" On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died. "

" Remember, I'm West Point, where I was born. My father went there. "

" It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true. "

" While campaigning, I got to know many high-school teachers, and let me say that the good ones are the unsung heroes of our society, and the bad ones are the gravediggers. "

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Society

Teachers

" As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests. "

" Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so. "

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

" An important governorship used to be the best springboard for would-be presidents. "

" Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale. "

" Love is not my bag. "

" After the French Revolution, the world money power shifted from Paris to London. For three generations, the British maintained an old-fashioned colonial empire, as well as a modern empire based on London's primacy in the money markets. "

" During the late '50s, I had worked on the script of Ben-Hur in an office next to that of the producer Sam Zimbalist. "

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

" By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he's been bought ten times over. "

Gore Vidal

Man

Been

" I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television. "

" 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. "