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Famous Quotes Home >> Authors Starting with G >> Quotes By Gore Vidal |
| Quote #1: | "The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes." |
| Quote #2: | "Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates." |
| Quote #3: | "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." |
| Quote #4: | "Of ex-President Eisenhower at the Republican convention of 1964 Reading a speech with his usual sense of discovery." |
| Quote #5: | "Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half." |
| Quote #6: | "Teaching has ruined more American novelists than drink." |
| Quote #7: | "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." |
| Quote #8: | "Never have children, only grandchildren." |
| Quote #9: | "Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so." |
| Quote #10: | "Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say and not giving a damn." |
| Quote #11: | "I'm a born-again atheist." |
| Quote #12: | "It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail." |
| Quote #13: | "A good deed never goes unpunished." |
| Quote #14: | "There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise." |
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