Quotes By Gore Vidal
Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.
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Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.
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I'm a born-again atheist.
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There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.
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A good deed never goes unpunished.
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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.
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Every time a friend succeeds, I die a little.
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I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
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In writing and politicking, it's best not to think about it, just do it.
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It's not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
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Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made.
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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.
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The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.
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The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.
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