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Fifty percent of people won't vote, and fifty percent don't read newspapers. I hope it's the same fifty percent. - Gore Vidal
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To preserve the human race, it is now necessary to reorganize society. To this end, an Authority must be created with the power to control human population, to redistribute food, to purify air, water, soil, to re-pattern the cities. - Gore Vidal
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It is a paradox of the acquisitive society in which we now live that although private morals are regulated by law, the entrepreneur is allowed considerable freedom to use - and abuse - the public in order to make money. - Gore Vidal
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The United States was founded by the brightest people in the country - and we haven't seen them since. - Gore Vidal
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Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age. - Gore Vidal
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That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers. - Gore Vidal
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History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true. - Gore Vidal
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Each youth betrays considerable anxiety about the wedding night ahead. - Gore Vidal
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Never have children, only grandchildren. - Gore Vidal
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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. - Gore Vidal
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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. - Gore Vidal
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Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates. - Gore Vidal
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By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he's been bought ten times over. - Gore Vidal
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I'm exactly as I appear. There is no warm, lovable person inside. Beneath my cold exterior, once you break the ice, you find cold water. - Gore Vidal
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As for civil liberties, any one who is not vigilant may one day find himself living, if not in a police state, at least in a police city. - Gore Vidal
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There is only one party in the United States: the Property party... and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat. - Gore Vidal
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The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so. - Gore Vidal
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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. - Gore Vidal
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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. - Gore Vidal
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We are the United States of Amnesia, which is encouraged by a media that has no desire to tell us the truth about anything, serving their corporate masters who have other plans to dominate us. - Gore Vidal
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The unfed mind devours itself. - Gore Vidal
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At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation and prejudice. - Gore Vidal
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I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television. - Gore Vidal
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Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies. - Gore Vidal
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I'm not a conspiracy theorist - I'm a conspiracy analyst. - Gore Vidal
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Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn. - Gore Vidal
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I think I have a normal threshold of anger, but it's true that I am, by nature, belligerent. - Gore Vidal
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As the age of television progresses the Reagans will be the rule, not the exception. To be perfect for television is all a President has to be these days. - Gore Vidal
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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail. - Gore Vidal
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Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so. - Gore Vidal
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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
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The greatest pleasure when I started making money was not buying cars or yachts but finding myself able to have as many freshly typed drafts as possible. - Gore Vidal
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#Making Money
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#Myself
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