Gore Vidal | work
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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Gore Vidal | time
As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.
Gore Vidal | sad
That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers.
Gore Vidal | politics
Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.
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Gore Vidal | politics
Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.
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Gore Vidal | politics
Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.
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Gore Vidal | money
The greatest pleasure when I started making money was not buying cars or yachts but finding myself able to have as many freshly typed drafts as possible.
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Gore Vidal | life
We must declare ourselves, become known allow the world to discover this subterranean life of ours which connects kings and farm boys, artists and clerks. Let them see that the important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.