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You Quotes by Gore Vidal
- Now you have people in Washington who have no interest in the country at all. They're interested in their companies, their corporations grabbing Caspian oil.
- As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it.…
- Democracy is supposed to give you the feeling of choice, like Painkiller X and Painkiller Y. But they're both just aspirin.
- A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.
- The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.
- All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.
- In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you're a great writer, you must say that you are.
- Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.
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- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento
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- Haiti, Haiti, the further I am from you, the less I breathe. Haiti, I love you, and I will love you always.… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide