Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half have never voted for president. One hopes it is the same half.

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About Gore Vidal

Portrait of Gore Vidal

Eugene Luther Gore Vidal ( vih-DAHL; born Eugene Louis Vidal, October 3, 1925 – July 31, 2012) was an American writer and public intellectual known for his cynical epigrammatic wit. His novels and essays criticized the social and sexual norms he perceived as driving American life. Vidal was heavily involved...

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Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say and not giving a damn.

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

I'm a born-again atheist.

There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.

It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

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The stress laid on upward social mobility in the United States has tended to obscure the fact that there can be more than one kind of mobility and more than one direction in which it can go. There can be ethical mobility as well as financial, and it can go down as well as up.

—Margaret Halsey

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You know what's interesting about Washington? It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature.

—George W. Bush

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You may break any written law in America with impunity. There is an unwritten law that you break at your peril. It is: do not attack the profit system.

—Mary Heaton Vorse

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The United States is like the guy at the party who gives cocaine to everybody and still nobody likes him.

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In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.

—Peter Ustinov

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