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Which Quotes by Gore Vidal
- 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…
- The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where…
- 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.…
- There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.
- 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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