Gore Vidal Quotes
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I'm all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.
Gore Vidal
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Author Details:
Type:
Novelist Quotes
Category:
American Novelist Quotes
Date of Birth:
October 3, 1925
Nationality:
American
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Related Authors:
Ernest Hemingway
Richard Bach
Chuck Palahniuk
William Faulkner
Elie Wiesel
Truman Capote
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Jack Kerouac
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Select Gore Vidal Quotations:
We're not a democracy.
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It's not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
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A good deed never goes unpunished.
Gore Vidal
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
Gore Vidal
The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.
Gore Vidal
The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.
Gore Vidal
Every time a friend succeeds, I die a little.
Gore Vidal
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Quote Keywords:

Adults,
Back,
Between,
Birch,
Bringing,
Consenting,
Only
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Dictionary Links:

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All Gore Vidal Quotations:
A good deed never goes unpunished.
A narcissist is someone better looking...
All children alarm their parents, if...
All in all, I would not...
Andy Warhol is the only genius...
Any American who is prepared to...
Apparently, a democracy is a place...
As societies grow decadent, the language...
As the age of television progresses...
By the time a man gets...
Democracy is supposed to give you...
Every time a friend succeeds, I...
Fifty percent of people won't vote...
Half of the American people have...
I never miss a chance to...
I'm all for bringing back the...
In America, the race goes to...
In writing and politicking, it's best...
It is not enough to succeed...
It is the spirit of the...
It's not enough to succeed. Others...
Litigation takes the place of sex...
Many writers who choose to be...
Never have children, only grandchildren.
Now you have people in Washington...
On 16 September 1985, when the...
One is sorry one could not...
Our form of democracy is bribery...
Sex is. There is nothing more...
Some writers take to drink, others...
Style is knowing who you are...
Television is now so desperately hungry...
That is sad until one recalls...
That loyal retainer of the Chase...
The behaviour of President Bush on...
The corporate grip on opinion in...
The four most beautiful words in...
The genius of our ruling class...
The greatest pleasure when I started...
The more money an American accumulates...
The theater needs continual reminders that...
There is no human problem which...
There is no such thing as...
There is something about a bureaucrat...
There's a lot to be said...
Think of the earth as a...
To a man, ornithologists are tall...
Today's public figures can no longer...
Until the rise of American advertising...
We must declare ourselves, become known...
We're not a democracy.
What is in question is a...
What other culture could have produced...
Whenever a friend succeeds, a little...
Write something, even if it's just...
Writing fiction has become a priestly...
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