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Gore Vidal Quotes

American - Novelist | October 3, 1925 - July 31, 2012

Americans, in general, are ignorant, bigoted, and deeply unhappy with their declining incomes.

Unhappy Ignorant General Deeply

Nearly everyone who goes into a campaign is not only eager for the place he hopes to fill but for what might come after.

Place Everyone Come Only Who Hopes

If you are a Representative and want to be a Senator, you must be careful not to do anything which might upset the various forces you need to harness to get elected.

You Want Upset Need Anything Get

We are pleased to dismiss politics as entirely corrupt, if not financially, intellectually.

Politics Corrupt Financially Dismiss

Ayn Rand is a rhetorician who writes novels I have never been able to read.

Never Been Able Who Read Ayn Rand

Both Marx and Christ agree that in this life, a right action is consideration for the welfare of others.

Life Action Others Right Welfare

Actually, I can't remember when I was not writing.

Writing Remember Remember When

Certainly 'The Judgment of Paris' was the novel in which I found my own voice.

Voice Paris My Own Judgment Own

In the writing of novels, there is the problem of how to shape a narrative.

Writing Problem Narrative Shape How

As for my support for Obama, remember that I was brought up in Washington. It was an all-black city when I was a kid. And I've always been very pro-African-American - or whatever phrase we now use.

Support City Remember Now Washington

Does one ever read a politician's books?

Politician Books Read Ever Does

My family is Southern. I'm used to Bill Clintons.

Family Used Southern Bill

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