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

About Gore Vidal

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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.

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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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

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More quotations tagged with “advice”

Never give advice unless asked.

—German Proverb

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

—G. K. Chesterton

Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.

—Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.

Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.

—English proverb

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