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Been Quotes by Gore Vidal
- The word 'radical' derives from the Latin word for root. Therefore, if you want to get to the root of anything you must be radical.…
- I have been asked whether I wish to nominate a successor, an inheritor, a dauphin or delfino. I have decided to name Christopher Hitchens.
- You know, I've been around the ruling class all my life, and I've been quite aware of their total contempt for the people of the…
- You cannot get through the density of the propaganda with which the American people, through the dreaded media, have been filled and the horrible public…
- Universities are filled with poets and novelists conducting demure and careful lives in imitation of Eliot and Forster and those others who (through what seems…
- For half a century photography has been the "art form" of the untalented. Obviously some pictures are more satisfactory than others, but where is credit…
- The last best hope of earth, two trillion dollars in debt, is spinning out of control, and all we can do is stare at a…
- Sex is a continuum. You go through different phases along life's way... and if you don't, you've been sort of cheated.
- By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he's been bought ten times over.
- We are given our place in time as we are given our eyes: weak, strong, clear, squinting, the thing is not ours to choose. Well,…
- Presidents have absolutely gone against the will of Congress. Congress hasn't declared a war since December 7, 1941, and yet we've been at war ever…
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- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is the end… — Hank Aaron
- He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled. — Aristotle
- Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered. — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle
- Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there… — Aristotle
- I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come… — Paul Auster
- Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that filmmakers, novelists, playwrights, painters have been… — J. J. Abrams
- Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or… — Richard Armour