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Quotes by Gore Vidal

US author & dramatist (1925 - )

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

Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either.

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

CP It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

For certain people after 50, litigation takes the place of sex.

CP It is not enough to succeed; others must fail.

Every time a friend succeeds, I die a little.

For certain people after fifty, litigation takes the place of sex.

Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they're scraping the top of the barrel.

I'm a born-again atheist.

I don't want prizes. I turned down the National Institute of Arts and Letters when I was elected to it in 1976 on the grounds that I already belonged to the Diner's Club.

I might be President by now if it weren't for this 'queer' thing

I can understand companionship. I can understand bought sex in the afternoon. I cannot understand the love affair.

Never have children, only grandchildren.

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

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

Whenever a friend succeeds a little something in me dies.

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