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| Gore VIDAL: Until the rise of American advertising, it never occurred to anyone anywhere in the world that the teenager was a captive in a hostile world of adults. | 
| Gore VIDAL: Write something, even if it's just a suicide note. | 
| Gore VIDAL: All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself. | 
| Gore VIDAL: Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so. | 
| Gore VIDAL: A narcissist is someone better looking than you are. | 
| Gore VIDAL: 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. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests. | 
| Gore VIDAL: Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn. | 
| Gore VIDAL: The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so. | 
| Gore VIDAL: 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 most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return. | 
| Gore VIDAL: Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates. | 
| Gore VIDAL: A good deed never goes unpunished. | 
| Gore VIDAL: Fifty percent of people won't vote, and fifty percent don't read newspapers. I hope it's the same fifty percent. | 
| Baruch Charney VLADECK: Call it Bolshevism or anarchism, but I call it one of the tenets of real Americanism, when the people of the city get together to better their conditions. | 
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