Quotes by Gore Vidal

Gore Vidal

Gore Vidal

American writer and criticus

Lived from: 1925 - 2012

Category: Media | Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited States

Born: 3 october 1925 Died: 31 july 2012

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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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  • It is difficult to find a reputable American historian who will acknowledge the crude fact that a Franklin Roosevelt, say, wanted to be President merely to wield power, to be famed and to be feared. To learn this simple fact one must wade through a sea of
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  • It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
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  • It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true.
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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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  • It's always best to stay out of other people's divorces. And their civil wars.
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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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  • 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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  • Never have children, only grand children.
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  • Never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
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  • On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.
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  • Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.
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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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  • Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.
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  • Style is knowing who you are, what to say, and not giving a damn.
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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 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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  • The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.
    The New York Review of Books (20 April 1972)
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  • The only thing that I react really violently to is being misquoted.
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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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