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Gore Vidal Inspirational Quotes (262)

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Sex was a great no-no for Americans, so that was obviously an attraction to the writers, and since sex is a great part of most people's lives, it's a great subject.
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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's neighbor is always the enemy. That is the nature of things.
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There are a great many people who have a vested interest in maintaining the stupidity of the American public.
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Commercialism is doing well that which should not be done at all.
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Persuading the people to vote against their own best interests has been the awesome genius of the American political elite from the beginning.
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In writing and politicking, it's best not to think about it, just do it.
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I can understand companionship. I can understand bought sex in the afternoon, but I cannot understand the love affair.
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Miss Rand now tells us that what we have thought was right is really wrong. The lesson should have read: One for one and none for all.
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Each writer is born with a repertory company in his head.
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The word heterosexual is an adjective, the word homosexual is an adjective. They describe an activity. Of course there's a homosexual activity of course there's a heterosexual activity. But there's no homosexual person. There's no heterosexual person. Everybody is everything.
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The same people own the media that own the White House that own the Congress that own the oil fields. They all work together to give a false view of the world to the American people.
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The hatred Americans have for their own government is pathological, if understandable. At one level it is simply thwarted greed: since our religion is making a buck, giving a part of that buck to any government is an act against nature.
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If satire is to be effective, the audience must be aware of the thing satirized.
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That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president.
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Democracy is something America has never really practiced. Because the Founding Fathers hated two things: monarchy and democracy. They wanted a republic, a replica of the Roman or Venetian republics. They didn't even like the etymology of the word democracy.
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Love, like a sense of humor, is now claimed by everyone even though Love, like a sense of humor, is rather more rare than not, and to most of us poor muddlers unbearable at full strength.
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The Puritans left England for America not because they couldn't be Puritans in their mother country, but because they were not allowed to force others to become Puritans in the New World, of course, they could and did.
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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.
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A writer represents his family history. My grandfather was a senator and my father served in the Roosevelt administration. In other words, I grew up in politics. This is why it seemed perfectly natural to take part in the battles of my time, and to participate in the writing of the history of my country.
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World events are the work of individuals whose motives are often frivolous, even casual.
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The behaviour of President Bush on 11 September certainly gives rise to not unnatural suspicions.
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The world came so close to self-destruction during my lifetime. I was serving in the American Army, in the Pacific, at the time they bombed Hiroshima and then Nagasaki, and I felt there something like a foretaste of the end of the world.
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Class is the most difficult subject for American writers to deal with as it is the most difficult for the English to avoid.
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