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Gore Vidal

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CYBILL SHEPHERD Man is divided into two categories; men and supermen. Men are taught that all men are equal. Superme...
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA Judgment refers to a sound mind. When there is no sound mind in a society, people in that society do...
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JEROME CHARYN Writers since at least the heyday of Gore Vidal have bemoaned their audience's defection to othe...
GARTH RISK HALLBERG This year, more of the artists are combining two or three processes to make one straight print. Ther...
CATHERINE SULLIVAN There are people who design buildings that are not technically and financially good, and there are t...
FRANK GEHRY Queerness isn't just Lady Gaga and overpriced drinks and fauxhawks. It's James Baldwin and B...
JOHN CAMERON MITCHELL There are two categories of women. Those who are women and those who are men’s wives.
CHARLOTTE WHITTON There are two categories of women. Those who are women and those who are men’s wives.
CHARLOTTE WHITTON There are only two sorts of people in life you can trust -- good Christians and good Communists.
JOE SLOVO I would say to those people, there's going to be one of two people who win this election. It's eithe...
KYM SPELL There is a real perception that there are two sets of rules in this country when it comes to police ...
DANNY DAVIS When you call someone a 'fag,' it identifies them with a group, a group that in today's climate is o...
JUDY SHEPARD There's plenty of money out there. They print more every day. But this ticket, there's only five of ...
ROALD DAHL There's only one free person in this society, and he is white and male.
HAZEL SCOTT There are many crooked lines and one straight line. Which is the line of truth? Why the straight lin...
SUN MYUNG MOON There are always two choices. Two paths to take. One is easy. And its only reward is that it's easy.
SOURCE UNKNOWN There are always two choices. Two paths to take. One is easy. And its only reward is that it's easy.
JOANNE KATHLEEN ROWLING There are always two choices. Two paths to take. One is easy. And its only reward is that it's easy.
STEPHEN R. COVEY I came to know Gore Vidal in the mid-1980s, when I was living in southern Italy, virtually a neighbo...
JAY PARINI We must show there is good in society. If you read the newspapers, you think there are only crooks i...
KALLAM ANJI REDDY It’s true—there are only, like, two songs about rainbows, including that one. He should be askin...
CHERYL CORY And be aware that people fall under one of two categories: they are either your brother and sister i...
IMAM ALI BIN ABI TALEB It's only in mediocre books that people are divided into two camps and have nothing to do with each ...
BORIS PASTERNAK I had a year off, so my wife and I were heading to Italy to study Italian. We found a little house i...
JAY PARINI To reduce this claim of slavery to an absurdity, it is only necessary to add that there are only two...
WILLIAM H. SEWARD I think there are two ways to depict a family. One is what it's really like, and one is what the aud...
AARON SPELLING I sometimes look at myself, I'm sitting with a biro and a cigarette packet, desperately scrawling dr...
JOE STRUMMER If you guys are upset that Al Gore is endorsing me, attack me, don't attack Al Gore, ... I think Al ...
HOWARD DEAN Welcome to a new year at Hogwarts! Before we begin our banquet, I would like to say a few words. And...
J.K. ROWLING Find people who think like you and stick with them. Make only music you are passionate about. Work o...
STEVE ALBINI I think there are two ways to depict a family. One is what it's really like, and one is what the...
AARON SPELLING I think that there were only two people in my high school that were comfortable there, and I think t...
GRANT SHOW I think that there were only two people in my high school that were comfortable there, and I think ...
GRANT SHOW The only trust required is to know that when there is one ending there will be another beginning.
CLARISSA PINKOLA ESTéS I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix.
DEYTH BANGER I feel like we are getting more movement up front this year, but obviously we are not getting it to ...
BRAD VANNEMAN There are only two moments when everything is possible in this life," said Petrus, "when one drinks,...
MURIEL BARBERY There is a trust there that Callahan will bring Nebraska back to its stature of old. In the past 10...
ALLEN WALLACE Immigrants are people who leave one country, one society, and move to another society. But there has...
SAMUEL P. HUNTINGTON You only trust those who are absolutely like yourself, those who have signed a pledge of allegiance ...
JUDITH BUTLER One moment you are here, othere there, then there. Then you can't move!
DEYTH BANGER And under the firmament were their wings straight, the one toward the other: every one had two, whic...
BIBLE Friendship is two minds that think like one. Love is one heart, one soul, one entity and one voice t...
APURVA GAGLANI There are only two ways to live a life, wait for a miracle or become one.
FAISAL KHOSA There are two traditions in Northern Ireland. There are two main religious denominations. But there ...
DAVID TRIMBLE There are only two forces at work in this world- black and white. Only people are grey.
CHRIS HEIMERDINGER This is my fundamental teaching: that there is no division between this and that. That is contained ...
OSHO Even though I'm skeptical that this kind of issue is going to pull the rug out from Al Gore, I think...
STUART ROTHENBERG I think this is a really simple, straight-forward contract that both Coach and I are happy with.
CARY GROTH Kiss someone like kissing is the only way you have to communicate. There is no conversation. There i...
ROBERTO HOGUE Campus police arrived and noticed this nitwit in the room, ... He was not a resident of the room.
CRAIG DAVIS In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is gett...
OSCAR WILDE Basically, there are two paths you can walk: faith or fear. It's impossible to simultaneously tr...
CHARLES STANLEY All persons possessing any portion of power ought to be strongly and awfully impressed with an idea...
EDMUND BURKE This problem . . . isn't attributable to only one of the two countries. There is demand (for drugs),...
GERONIMO GUTIERREZ There are two different categories of love. The first category is called a fairytale. The second cat...
TAYLOR SWIFT Most companies fall into one of two categories. Either they are diversified and slow growth or conce...
ARNAB CHANDA Man and woman are the two wheels of society. If either one becomes defective, the society cannot mak...
ABHIJIT NASKAR There are issues such as what are we going to do with this enormous (budget) surplus that we have. I...
BILL BRADLEY 'There's only a few people in this world I trust and I'm not one of them'.
RICHARD 'GRIMESY' GRIMES There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think ...
BLAISE PASCAL A delirious person would think there's only one way, and that way is simple, but the truth is no way...
JOHN SHELTON JONES I know there is no straight road
No straight road in this world
Only a giant labyrinth <...
FEDERICO GARCíA LORCA I think God's wrath and purgatory are the only things keeping me on the straight and narrow. I l...
KATEE SACKHOFF We used to think that if we knew one, we knew two, because one and one are two. We are finding that ...
SIR ARTHUR EDDINGTON Two strikes and two outs in the bottom of the ninth and Gore gets a hit,
DICK DURBIN I think ... Gore and Bush are, shall we say, chicken here.
RALPH NADER There are only two races on this planet -- the intelligent and the stupid.
JOHN FOWLES I think it is very important that they look at the categories that allow direct instruction to occur...
MARGARET DAVIS There are two sides to every argument, unless a person is personally involved, in which case there i...
CUTLER WEBSTER There are two ways to write error-free programs. Only the third one works.
ANON. There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
ALAN PERLIS Some days are like this. And the only way to get through them is to remember that they are only one ...
DAVID LEVITHAN There are contradictory tendencies in American society. There's a huge range of activities that ...
NORMAN FINKELSTEIN This is not just for Dunbar, but for anyone who wants to give us a recipe or two. We're going to hav...
JOAN GRAZIANO When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that Americ...
ISAAC ASIMOV He is in many ways quite a right-wing isolationist. It's because some people are naïve enough to co...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS I've always regarded it as a test of character to dislike the Kennedys. I don't really respect anyon...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS There is only one theory about angling in which I have perfect confidence, and this is that the two...
LORD EDWARD GREY (GREY OF FALLODON) There are only two types of people in the world. There are the people who understand that this is a ...
RUPAUL My father says that there is only one perfect view — the view of the sky straight over our heads, ...
E.M. FORSTER Back in the dark days when we first started this, there were two gay-straight alliances in the city....
CHRIS DYER I think it's an overall educational experience. We are now in a society where everything is communic...
JAN DIJKWEL There's only one free person in this society, and he is white and male.
HAZEL SCOTT In a multi-racial society, trust, understanding and tolerance are the cornerstones of peace and orde...
KAMISESE MARA There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justi...
SIMONE WEIL Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.
OSCAR WILDE He was the friend of my life. You know, you only have one friend like that; there can't be two.
JAMES SALTER No one can make the album they made 10 years ago with a straight face. There are two reasons: one is...
BRAD PAISLEY I'm a big rock star, I got a beautiful girl, and they still call me a fag. Its' like high school nev...
JONATHAN DAVIS There are only two reasons why some people are not Christians. One, they have never met a Christian,...
SEAN GREEN There are only two choices: A police state in which all dissent is suppressed or rigidly controlled;...
WILLIAM ORVILLE DOUGLAS Responsibility and Trust -- these two are like Yin and Yang, together perfectly complete, and each o...
VERA NAZARIAN Only Al Gore can beat Al Gore, ... it won't matter who wins.
RALPH NADER accomplished a bit more for Bush than for Gore only because there were more question marks for Bush....
STUART ROTHENBERG There's still only two confirmed. There's one that came back negative. I believe there are seven sti...
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GORE VIDAL It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
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GORE VIDAL It's always best to stay out of other people's divorces. And their civil wars.
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GORE VIDAL Walter Lippmann suggests that the United States behaves like a society which thinks it is complete w...
GORE VIDAL Fortunately, our audiences are used to a kind of boredom in the theatre, and if the writer is skillf...
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GORE VIDAL Jack Kennedy very much enjoyed Fletcher Knebel's thriller 'Seven Days in May,' later a f...
GORE VIDAL Each youth betrays considerable anxiety about the wedding night ahead.
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GORE VIDAL I think I have a normal threshold of anger, but it's true that I am, by nature, belligerent.
GORE VIDAL The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.
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GORE VIDAL Andy Warhol is the only genius I've ever known with an I.Q. of 60.
GORE VIDAL No sooner does an American president take his oath of office than the speculation begins: Will he be...
GORE VIDAL That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president.
GORE VIDAL Envy is the central fact of American life.
GORE VIDAL I didn't mean to spend my life writing American history, which should have been taught in the sc...
GORE VIDAL I'm not a conspiracy theorist - I'm a conspiracy analyst.
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GORE VIDAL It is not enough to succeed; others must fail.
GORE VIDAL Every time a friend succeeds, I die a little.
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GORE VIDAL Whenever a friend succeeds a little something in me dies.
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GORE VIDAL I'm a born-again atheist
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GORE VIDAL Write something, even if it's just a suicide note.
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GORE VIDAL That is New York. I pointed to the waterfront just ahead as if the city were mine.
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GORE VIDAL The truth about Pearl Harbour is obscured to this day. But it has been much studied.
GORE VIDAL Ayn Rand's 'philosophy' is nearly perfect in its immorality, which makes the size of her audience al...
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GORE VIDAL Remember, I'm West Point, where I was born. My father went there.
GORE VIDAL Europe began as the relatively empty, uncivilized Wild West of Asia; then the Western Hemisphere bec...
GORE VIDAL Everything's wrong on Wikipedia.
GORE VIDAL You hear all this whining going on, 'Where are our great writers?' The thing I might feel do...
GORE VIDAL Life will be wonderful when men no longer fear dying. When the last superstitions are thrown out and...
GORE VIDAL Even a child could see the division between what the Galileans [i.e., Christians] say they believe a...
GORE VIDAL Ayn Rand is a rhetorician who writes novels I have never been able to read.
GORE VIDAL Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they're scraping the top of the barrel...
GORE VIDAL The Pentagon talks about our power to 'overkill' Russia ten times, twenty times, perhaps for...
GORE VIDAL The behaviour of President Bush on 11 September certainly gives rise to not unnatural suspicions.
GORE VIDAL In classical times, it was a capital offense to speculate upon the hour of a king's death or upo...
GORE VIDAL My memory plays me odd tricks these days [...] Age spares us nothing, old friend. Like ancient trees...
GORE VIDAL ...is not all philosophy but preparation for a serene dying?
GORE VIDAL The failure of Hellenism has been, largely, a matter of organization. Rome never tried to impose any...
GORE VIDAL But like so many others nowadays, poor Julian wanted to believe that man's life is profoundly more s...
GORE VIDAL