Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.
GORE VIDALI am only at home in the present.
More Gore Vidal Quotes
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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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Envy is the central fact of American life.
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Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.
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All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.
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Boys don’t like girls around when they do boy things.
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What is in question is a kind of book reviewing which seems to be more and more popular: the loose putting down of opinions as though they were facts, and the treating of facts as though they were opinions.
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Corporations must pay tax.
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Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made.
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It is essential to naturalist doctrine that literature, to be good, must, finally, be the author’s experience worked out literally.
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The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.
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Everything’s wrong on Wikipedia.
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I remember the Bond movies when I was a child. They were silent then.
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I’m always an optimist!
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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.
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Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.
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