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Gore Vidal Quotes: 6

  • Fifty percent of people won't vote, and fifty percent don't read newspapers. I hope it's the same fifty percent.

  • The unfed mind devours itself.

  • Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.

    Screening History
  • The important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.

  • To a born-again atheist like myself, it is clear that each of us has multiple selves, talents, perceptions. But to the Roman Catholic, unity is all.

    At Home: Essays 1982-1988
  • Ultimately, totalitarianism is the only sort of politics that can truly serve the sky-god's purpose. Any movement of a liberal nature endangers his authority and that of his delegates on earth. One God, one King, one Pope, one master in the factory, one father-leader in the family at home.