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Quotes by Gore Vidal

  • The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.
  • Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.
  • 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.
  • Of ex-President Eisenhower at the Republican convention of 1964 Reading a speech with his usual sense of discovery.
  • Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.
  • Teaching has ruined more American novelists than drink.
  • 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.
  • Never have children, only grandchildren.
  • Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.
  • Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say and not giving a damn.
  • I'm a born-again atheist.
  • It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
  • A good deed never goes unpunished.
  • There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.