Gore Vidal Short Quotes

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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

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A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.

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That peculiarly American religion, President-worship.

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Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.

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On the throne of the world, any delusion becomes fact.

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Never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.

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Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.

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Never pass up a chance to have sex or appear on television.

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First coffee, then a bowel movement. Then the Muse joins me.

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Reality is something the human race doesn't handle very well.

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The folly of the clever is always more than that of the dull.

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Looking and sounding not unlike Hitler, but without the charm.
On William F. Buckley Jr.

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A writer must always tell the truth (unless he's a journalist)

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It is curious how often one prefers his enemies to his friends.

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All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world.

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There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.

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There is no terror equal that of the ignorant in a strange place.

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Books always cost more in those cities where they are least read!

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Anybody who's not paranoid is not in full possession of the facts.

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Modern Christianity is a encyclopedia of traditional superstition.

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American writers want to be not good but great; and so are neither.

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The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.

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Anybody, at any time, may equally find himself victim or executioner.

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He will lie even when it is inconvenient: the sign of the true artist.

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Apparently, "conspiracy stuff" is now shorthand for unspeakable truth.

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We are all so simple at heart that become unfathomable to one another.

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There are certain truths so true that they are practically unbelievable.

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I'm all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.

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

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My makeup is rather cheerful.... Why would I be depressed about anything?

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