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"American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age."
"As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the age of 'do it yourself.'"
"It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again."
"There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity."
"It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work."
"Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen."
Explore more quotes by Gore Vidal
"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."
"Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made."
"That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers."
"Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half."
"The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity - much less dissent."
"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."
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