Gore Vidal Quotes

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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Laughing at someone else is an excellent way of learning how to laugh at oneself and questioning what seem to be the absurd beliefs of another group is a good way of recognizing the potential absurdity of many of one's own cherished beliefs.

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A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.

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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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Whenever a friend succeeds a little something in me dies.

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Half of the American people never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.

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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

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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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A good deed never goes unpunished.

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

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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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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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Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.

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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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There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.

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

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Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they're scraping the top of the barrel.

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Andy Warhol is the only genius with an IQ of 60.

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Rome... at its most decadent, had never thought of hiring an actor to go through the motions of being an emperor while the Praetorian Guard ruled.

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One is sorry one could not have taken both branches of the road. But we were not allotted multiple selves.

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Write something, even if it's just a suicide note.

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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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It makes no difference whom you vote for -- the two parties are really one party representing four percent of the people.

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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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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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