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Results of search for Author: Gore Vidal - Page 1 of 2 Showing results 1 to 10 of 12 total quotations found.
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Whenever a friend succeeds a little something in me dies.: Gore Vidal (1925 - )

Results from Rand Lindsly's Quotations:

I can understand companionship. I can understand bought sex in the afternoon. I cannot understand the love affair.: Gore Vidal (1925 - )
I might be President by now if it weren't for this 'queer' thing: Gore Vidal (1925 - )
Young people are more hopeful at a certain age than adults, but I suspect that's glandular. As for children, I keep as far from them as possible. I don't like the sight of them. The scale is all wrong. The heads tend to be too big for the bodies, and the hands and feet are a disaster. They keep falling into things. The nakedness of their bad character! We adults have learned how to disguise our terrible character, but children, well, they are like grotesque drawings of us. They should be neither seen nor heard, and no one must make another one.: Gore Vidal (1925 - ), Conversations With Gore Vidal - 1981
I don't want prizes. I turned down the National Institute of Arts and Letters when I was elected to it in 1976 on the grounds that I already belonged to the Diner's Club.: Gore Vidal (1925 - )
I'm a born-again atheist.: Gore Vidal (1925 - )
Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they're scraping the top of the barrel.: Gore Vidal (1925 - )
For certain people after fifty, litigation takes the place of sex.: Gore Vidal (1925 - )
Every time a friend succeeds, I die a little.: Gore Vidal (1925 - )
It is not enough to succeed; others must fail.: Gore Vidal (1925 - )

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