Gore Vidal Quotes

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Gore Vidal

Profession : Novelist

Birth : October 3, 1925

I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.

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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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We are the United States of Amnesia, which is encouraged by a media that has no desire to tell us the truth about anything, serving their corporate masters who have other plans to dominate us.

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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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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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A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.

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Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.

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The unfed mind devours itself.

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What other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke?

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Never have children, only grandchildren.

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Overcrowding in the cities is producing a collective madness in which irrational violence flourishes because man needs more space in which to be than the modern city allows.

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I think I have a normal threshold of anger, but it's true that I am, by nature, belligerent.

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Envy is the central fact of American life.

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The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.

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The United States was founded by the brightest people in the country - and we haven't seen them since.

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Fortunately, our audiences are used to a kind of boredom in the theatre, and if the writer is skillful, he will flatter them into thinking: 'Why, that's us up there, and aren't we - for all our little foibles - pretty nice guys and gals?'

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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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There's a lot to be said for being nouveau riche, and the Reagans mean to say it all.

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Americans, in general, are ignorant, bigoted, and deeply unhappy with their declining incomes.

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Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.

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