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Gore Vidal
United States writer (born in 1925)
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A good deed never goes unpunished.
Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.
Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.
Every time a friend succeeds, I die a little.
For certain people after 50, litigation takes the place of sex.
For certain people after fifty, litigation takes the place of sex.
Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.
I can understand companionship. I can understand bought sex in the afternoon. I cannot understand the love affair.
I'm a born-again atheist.
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
It is not enough to succeed; others must fail.
Never have children, only grandchildren.
Of ex-President Eisenhower at the Republican convention of 1964 Reading a speech with his usual sense of discovery.
Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say and not giving a damn.
Teaching has ruined more American novelists than drink.
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.
The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.
There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.
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.
Whenever a friend succeeds a little something in me dies.
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