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Gore Vidal
October 3, 1925 -
Nationality: American
Category: Novelist
Subcategory: American Novelist

What is in question is a kind of book reviewing which seems to be more and more popular: the loose putting down of opinions as though they were facts, and the treating of facts as though they were opinions.

   

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

   

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

   

What other culture could have produced someone like Hemmingway and not seen the joke?

   

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.

   

In writing and politicking, it's best not to think about it, just do it.

   

Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.

   

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.

   

Until the rise of American advertising, it never occurred to anyone anywhere in the world that the teenager was a captive in a hostile world of adults.

   

The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.

   

Sex is. There is nothing more to be done about it. Sex builds no roads, writes no novels and sex certainly gives no meaning to anything in life but itself.

   

Every time a friend succeeds, I die a little.

   

I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.

   

As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.

   

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

   

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

   

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