Gore Vidal

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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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great

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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hope

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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life

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

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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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money

Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.

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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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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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politics

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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sad

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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