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Gore Vidal Inspirational Quotes (262)

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The United States is my subject, but as Hawthorne once wrote, the United States are suited for many admirable purposes, but not to live in.
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Southerners make good novelists: they have so many stories because they have so much family.
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By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he's been bought ten times over.
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Never have varmints, only grandvarmints.
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The fool is often oblivious of his own gaucherie.
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Drugs. If they did not exist our governors would have invented them in order to prohibit them and so make much of the population vulnerable to arrest, imprisonment, seizure of property, and so on.
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People like to re-invent you, according to cliché. There are a lot of stores about me that really apply only to Capote or Mailer or somebody else. Everything is a mish mash.
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Nonprofit status is what created the Bible Belt. The tax code brought religion back to this country.
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The Gores, I think, are a bit brighter than the Bushes, historically speaking.
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Baum (Writer of THE WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ) was a true educator, and those who read his Oz books are often made what they were not-imaginative , tolerant, alert to wonders, life.
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I think we're going to have to accept the fact the U.S. is off the world map. We are not a great player any longer. And when we come home - as we will have to do because we've run out of money - we will discover that Argentine debts means Argentine politics. And on that note, you can wake up in the middle of the night.
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Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.
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To bring into the world an unwanted human being is as antisocial an act as murder.
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Having no talent is no longer enough.
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Fifty percent of people won't vote, and fifty percent don't read newspapers. I hope it's the same fifty percent.
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Little Bush says we are at war, but we are not at war because to be at war Congress has to vote for it. He says we are at war on terror, but that is a metaphor, though I doubt if he knows what that means. It's like having a war on dandruff, it's endless and pointless.
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Christianity is such a silly religion.
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The only absolute attainment is absolute abandonment.
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Realism has always been called cynicism.
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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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These people [Bush Administration] are for the most part rip-off artists. Notice that they're all gas and oil men from Cheney, to the two Bushes I think Rumsfeld also.
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Nixon was a Southern Rim President, and so antipathetic to the old guard.
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Since I ought to be arrogant, impressed with my social position, overwhelmed by my beauty, therefore I am. Actually I was never my own type so I completely missed my beauty all through my youth. I have no social position and I stay away from what is known as society as much as possible. But people like to re-invent you, according to cliché.
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Apparently, 'conspiracy stuff' is now shorthand for unspeakable truth.
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