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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

Gore Vidal | time

By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he’s been bought ten times over.

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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.

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Gore Vidal sad

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.

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Gore Vidal politics

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

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

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

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 money

Gore Vidal | money

The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.

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Gore Vidal Life

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.

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