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Gore Vidal Inspirational Quotes (262)

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I spend most of my time in California. I feel I am fueled by rage and by the political climate there. I am angry most of the time when I am there, which might be unbearable for someone else, but for me it's fuel for my writing.
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The British are absolutely hung up on class, and whenever they start to really - class for the English is like sex for Americans: They start to shake all over when the subject comes up.
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The true confessors have been aware that not only is life mostly failure, but that in one's failure or pettiness or wrongness exists the living drama of the self.
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One of the most fascinating aspects of politician-watching is trying to determine to what extent any politician believes what he says.
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[ New York ] is a place that worships incompetence particularly if it's combined with energy and paranoid self-confidence. Only in a city like New York could Truman Capote have made it, or John Simon.
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I was brought up to believe that what is out-of-doors should stay there and not be encouraged in any way.
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Nothing human is finally calculable even to ourselves we are strange.
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The whole point to American journalism is what ought to be true is true.
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When the Presidential virus attacks the system there is a tendency for the patient in his fever to move from the Right or the Left to the Center where the curative votes are.
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In fact, life itself is a contradiction if only because birth is the direct cause, in every single case, of death
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Precocious talents mature slowly if at all.
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Instead of finding alternative energy sources, we try to subjugate entire regions of the world. People do not understand that by doing this, the United States are going to absolute ruin.
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I don't seem to be cynical to myself but how what I say goes down with others is their problem. I'm realistic.
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I do not much care for nature, and believe that flowers belong in vases rather than loose and untidy on the ground.
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American laws don't work, but at least the laws of physics might work.
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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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Envy is the central fact of American life.
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As the age of television progresses the Reagans will be the rule, not the exception. To be perfect for television is all a President has to be these days.
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I'm in favor of sexual encounters.
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Everybody likes a bit of gossip to some point, as long as it's gossip with some point to it. That's why I like history. History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true.
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Everything's wrong on Wikipedia.
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It is of no consequence to you what others think of you. What matters is what you think of them. That is how you live your life.
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Freud did some serious damage to American literature - a lot of writers began therapy in the 1940s, after which they all became terribly egocentric.
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A good deed never goes unpunished.
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