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Quite Quotes by Gore Vidal
- You know, I've been around the ruling class all my life, and I've been quite aware of their total contempt for the people of the…
- We're the most captive nation of slaves that ever came along. The moral timidity of the average American is quite noticeable. Everybody's afraid to be…
- Because there is no cosmic point to the life that each of us perceives on this distant bit of dust at galaxy's edge, all the…
- We affect one another quite enough merely by existing. Whenever the stars cross, or is it comets? fragments pass briefly from one orbit to another.…
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