Quotes From "Burr" By Gore Vidal

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Although Americans justify their self-interest in moral terms, their true interest is never itself moral. Gore Vidal
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We do not want to old to be sharper than we. It is bad enough that they were there first, and got the best things. Gore Vidal
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I am afraid that as people grow old there is a tendency for them to believe that what the past *ought* to have been it was. Gore Vidal
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...Leggett feels that to be excitingly right in general is better than to be dully accurate in particular. That is why he is such an effective journalist. Gore Vidal