A Quote by Gore Vidal

Every generation gets the Tiny Tim it deserves.

Gore Vidal

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Deserves Every Generation Gets Tim Tiny

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Gore Vidal
American - Writer
October 3, 1925 - July 31, 2012

If every nation gets the government it deserves, every generation writes the history which corresponds with its view of the world.

Elizabeth Janeway

Every generation gets the Constitution that it deserves. As the central preoccupations of an era make their way into the legal system, the Supreme Court eventually weighs in, and nine lawyers in robes become oracles of our national identity.

Noah Feldman

God bless us every one! said Tiny Tim, the last of all.

Charles Dickens

Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on.

Robert Kennedy

Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.

Erica Jong

Every movie gets exactly what it deserves.

Farhan Akhtar

I suppose every decade gets the music it deserves.

Robert Charles Wilson

Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves.

Robert Kennedy

But probably every age gets, within certain limits, the science it deserves.

C. S. Lewis

Every American travelling in England gets his own individual sport out of the toy passenger and freight trains and the tiny locomotives, with their faint, indignant, tiny whistle. Especially in western England one wonders how the business of a nation can possibly be carried on by means so insufficient.