Has beens Quotes by Gore Vidal

15 Has beens quotes by Gore Vidal

Gore Vidal brings his sharp wit to the 'Has beens' arena, delivering fifteen pointed observations. Expect a blend of satire and insight, where each line nudges the reader to reconsider how former fame is weighed.

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I have been asked whether I wish to nominate a successor, an inheritor, a dauphin or delfino. I have decided to name…

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I have been on the cover of Time magazine. My father was on the cover of Time, and my grandfather was on…

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I am savage about what has been done to the United States by its rulers.

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Persuading the people to vote against their own best interests has been the awesome genius of the American political elite from the…

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You cannot get through the density of the propaganda with which the American people, through the dreaded media, have been filled and…

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The true confessors have been aware that not only is life mostly failure, but that in one's failure or pettiness or wrongness…

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Once people get hung up on theology, they've lost sanity forever. More people have been killed in the name of Jesus Christ…

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I have been saying for the some time now that America has only one party - the property party. It's the party…

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When you come from a family that has been political, and I was brought up by my grandfather in the Senate, my…

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Universities are filled with poets and novelists conducting demure and careful lives in imitation of Eliot and Forster and those others who…

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I'm devoted to promiscuity, and always have been. I believe the more you do, the better it is for you. I'm a…

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We have been at war almost constantly since the last century. And it has not helped our institutions. Congress no longer represents…

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Since there is no system of public education, the great majority of my fellow citizens is frighteningly ignorant. They have no idea…

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It doesn't actually make any difference whether the President is Republican or Democrat. The genius of the American ruling class is that…

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The last best hope of earth, two trillion dollars in debt, is spinning out of control, and all we can do is…

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Many people in the United States happen to believe that United States policy is wrong in Vietnam and the Vietcong are correct in wanting…

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“It is curious how little interested we are in the sexual desires of those who do not attract us.”

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This separation was absolute in our original Republic. But the sky-godders do not give up easily. In the 1950s they actually got the phrase…

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

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The oligarchs think that the people are both dangerous and stupid. Their point is moot. But we do know that the oligarchs are a…

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It is curious how often one prefers his enemies to his friends.

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As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying…

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Rome ... at its most decadent, had never thought of hiring an actor to go through the motions of being an emperor while the…

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History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true.

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The malady of civilized man is his knowledge of death. The good artist, like the wise man, addresses himself to life and invests with…

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Sex is a continuum. You go through different phases along life's way... and if you don't, you've been sort of cheated.

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All I want is that Americans still be able to read the alphabet in a hundred years. I am not very ambitious.

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I do not admire 'the people,' as such. No one really does. Their folk wisdom is usually false, their instincts predatory. Even their sense…

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“One of the problems of a society as tightly controlled as ours is that we get so little information about what those of our…

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