Gore Vidal Quotes

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

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• The behaviour of President Bush on 11 September certainly gives rise to not unnatural suspicions.

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• That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president.

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• 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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• Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they’re scraping the top of the barrel.

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• Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.

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• S*x is. There is nothing more to be done about it. S*x builds no roads, writes no novels and s*x certainly gives no meaning to anything in life but itself.

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• Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.

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• One is sorry one could not have taken both branches of the road. But we were not allotted multiple selves.

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• On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.

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• Now you have people in Washington who have no interest in the country at all. They’re interested in their companies, their corporations grabbing Caspian oil.

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• Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made.

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• It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

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• In writing and politicking, it’s best not to think about it, just do it.

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• In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you’re a great writer, you must say that you are.

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• I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.

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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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• Every time a friend succeeds, I die a little.

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• Democracy is supposed to give you the feeling of choice, like Painkiller X and Painkiller Y. But they’re both just aspirin.

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Gore Vidal (68)

Birth:	3rd October, 1925
Death:	31st July, 2012
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor, Author, Essayist, Novelist, Playwright, Politician, Screenwriter

About

Gore Vidal was born in West Point, New York, USA. He was an American actor, author, essayist, novelist, playwright, politician, and screenwriter. His political and cultural essays were published in The Nation, the New Statesman, the New York Review of Books, and Esquire magazines. His role in several films include: Bob Roberts, With Honors, Shadow Conspiracy, Gattaca, and Shrink. He wrote Non-fiction include: Sex, Death and Money, Vidal in Venice, Sexually Speaking, Dreaming War, Inventing a Nation, and Imperial America. He wrote several essays include: Reflections Upon a Sinking Ship, The Second American Revolution, Armageddon?, Screening History, United States: Essays 1952-1992, The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000. He wrote several novels include: Williwaw, The City and the Pillar, Dark Green, Bright Red, Messiah, Julian, Myra Breckinridge, Burr, Myron, 1876, Kalki, Creation, Duluth, Lincoln, Empire, Hollywood, Live from Golgotha, The Smithsonian Institution, and The Golden Age. He wrote several plays include: Visit to a Small Planet, The Best Man, Weekend, and An Evening with Richard Nixon. In 1960, he was the Democratic candidate for Congress, for the 29th Congressional District of New York State, a usually Republican district on the Hudson River, but lost the election to the Republican candidate J. Ernest Wharton, by a margin of 57 percent to 43 percent. He wrote several films include: The Catered Affair, I Accuse!, The Scapegoat, Suddenly, Last Summer, The Best Man, Is Paris Burning?, Last of the Mobile Hot Shots, and The Palermo Connection.

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