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Best Quotes by Gore Vidal (Top 10)
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The unfed mind devours itself.
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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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Write something, even if it's just a suicide note.
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Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.
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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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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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Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either.
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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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We are the United States of Amnesia, we learn nothing because we remember nothing.
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Every time a friend succeeds, I die a little.
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More Gore Vidal Quotes
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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
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I regard monotheism as the greatest disaster ever to befall the human race. I see no good in Judaism, Christianity, or Islam - good people, yes, but any religion based on a single, well, frenzied and virulent god, is not as useful to the human race as, say, Confucianism, which is not a religion but an ethical and educational system.
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There is only one party in the United States, the Property Party "¦ and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat.
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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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The idea of a good society is something you do not need a religion and eternal punishment to buttress; you need a religion if you are terrified of death.
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Reality is something the human race doesn't handle very well.
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For the average American, freedom of speech is simply the freedom to repeat what everyone else is saying and no more.
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Never have children, only grandchildren.
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Each writer is born with a repertory company in his head. Shakespeare has perhaps 20 players. ... I have 10 or so, and thats a lot. As you get older, you become more skillful at casting them.
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It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four percent of the people.
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The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.
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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.
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In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you're a great writer, you must say that you are.
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Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.
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Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.
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I'm a born - again atheist.
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A good deed never goes unpunished.
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If most men and women were forced to rely upon physical charm to attract lovers, their sexual lives would be not only meager but in a youth-worshiping country like America painfully brief.
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Teaching has ruined more American novelists than drink.
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A talent for drama is not a talent for writing, but is ability to articulate human relationships.
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