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Gore Vidal

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

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

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"Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new."

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"I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal."

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"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."

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"Stephen King in many respects is a wonderful writer. He has made a contribution. People in the future will be able to pick up Stephen King's books and learn a lot about who we were by reading those books."

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"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones."

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"We must declare ourselves, become known; allow the world to discover this subterranean life of ours which connects kings and farm boys, artists and clerks. Let them see that the important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself."
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"That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president."
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"Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so."
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"It's not enough to succeed. Others must fail."
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"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."
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"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."
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"All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world."
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"Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they're scraping the top of the barrel."
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"There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise."
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