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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.
Written by Gore Vidal
The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.
Written by Gore Vidal
Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.
Written by Gore Vidal
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.
Written by Gore Vidal
A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.
Written by Gore Vidal
I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
Written by Gore Vidal
Never have children, only grandchildren.
Written by Gore Vidal
Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.
Written by Gore Vidal
In writing and politicking, it's best not to think about it, just do it.
Written by Gore Vidal
Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.
Written by Gore Vidal
Until the rise of American advertising, it never occurred to anyone anywhere in the world that the teenager was a captive in a hostile world of adults.
Written by Gore Vidal
All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.
Written by Gore Vidal
One is sorry one could not have taken both branches of the road. But we were not allotted multiple selves.
Written by Gore Vidal
The greatest pleasure when I started making money was not buying cars or yachts but finding myself able to have as many freshly typed drafts as possible.
Written by Gore Vidal
What is in question is a kind of book reviewing which seems to be more and more popular: the loose putting down of opinions as though they were facts, and the treating of facts as though they were opinions.
Written by Gore Vidal
Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made.
Written by Gore Vidal
That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers.
Written by Gore Vidal
Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they're scraping the top of the barrel.
Written by Gore Vidal
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.
Written by Gore Vidal
Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.
Written by Gore Vidal
Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.
Written by Gore Vidal
There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.
Written by Gore Vidal
Andy Warhol is the only genius I've ever known with an I.Q. of 60.
Written by Gore Vidal
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
Written by Gore Vidal
What other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke?
Written by Gore Vidal
Write something, even if it's just a suicide note.
Written by Gore Vidal
We must declare ourselves, become known; allow the world to discover this subterranean life of ours which connects kings and farm boys, artists and clerks. Let them see that the important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.
Written by Gore Vidal
By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he's been bought ten times over.
Written by Gore Vidal
Fifty percent of people won't vote, and fifty percent don't read newspapers. I hope it's the same fifty percent.
Written by Gore Vidal
The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.
Written by Gore Vidal

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