Quotes and Quotations

Memorable Quotes and quotations from Gore Vidal

Gore Vidal US author & dramatist (1925 - )


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- Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say and not giving a damn.

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- For certain people after 50, litigation takes the place of sex.

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- It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

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- Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal - The World Almanac and Book of Facts, 1993
- Half of the American people never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.

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- I can understand companionship. I can understand bought sex in the afternoon. I cannot understand the love affair.

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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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- Every time a friend succeeds, I die a little.

Gore Vidal -
- For certain people after fifty, litigation takes the place of sex.

Gore Vidal -
- Whenever a friend succeeds a little something in me dies.

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- There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.

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

Gore Vidal -
- It is not enough to succeed; others must fail.