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Gore Vidal

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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.


— Gore Vidal


#fifty percent #hope #i #newspapers #people

By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he's been bought ten times over.


— Gore Vidal


#bought #by the time #gets #man #material

A good deed never goes unpunished.


— Gore Vidal


#goes #good #good deed #never #unpunished

Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.


— Gore Vidal


#apparently #candidates #cost #democracy #elections

Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both die.


— Gore Vidal


#bacteria #being #billions #both #die

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


— Gore Vidal


#american #any #automatically #definition #disqualified

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


— Gore Vidal


#friend #little #me #something #succeeds

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


— Gore Vidal


#i #missed #world #would

Andy Warhol is the only genius I've ever known with an I.Q. of 60.


— Gore Vidal


#andy warhol #ever #genius #i #known

Never have children, only grandchildren.


— Gore Vidal


#grandchildren #never #only






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What a Concept. The producers later made an attempt to salvage some of Vidal's vision in the film's post-production. " During the taping of the show there was a legendary on-camera feud between Vidal and Mailer over what Vidal had written about the latter prompting Mailer to say: "I've had to smell your works from time to time.

His most widely regarded social novel was Myra Breckinridge; his best known historical novels included Julian Burr and Lincoln. In addition to this he characterised the United States as a decaying empire from the 1980s onwards. " Ben-Hur won the Academy Award for Best Picture.

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