As far as I'm concerned, collaboration is the essence of life. It's wonderful to be able to have talents, and, very often, we think that we know what our talents are, or we find out through a back door that we have a talent. I know that I found out I was a lyricist quite through a back door.


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AL GORE
Iraq's search for weapons of mass destruction has proven impossible to deter and we should assume th...
AL GORE
to mend some fences, both literally and figuratively.
AL GORE
I could be a lot happier. I could be the senator from Aerospace taking bribes, and be quite happy.
GORE VIDAL
I find in most novels no imagination at all. They seem to think the highest form of the novel is to ...
GORE VIDAL
Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.
GORE VIDAL
Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness witho...
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Each writer is born with a repertory company in his head. Shakespeare has perhaps twenty players, an...
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That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness...
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The Bush administration works closely with a network of rapid response digital brownshirts who work ...
AL GORE
Never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
GORE VIDAL
For half a century photography has been the "art form" of the untalented. Obviously some pictures ar...
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Half of the American people never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is...
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Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence...
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Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.
GORE VIDAL
It is difficult to find a reputable American historian who will acknowledge the crude fact that a Fr...
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I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
GORE VIDAL
There is no such thing as a homosexual or a heterosexual person. There are only homo -- or heterosex...
GORE VIDAL
Sex is. There is nothing more to be done about it. Sex builds no roads, writes no novels and sex cer...
GORE VIDAL
I don't know if my mother was a narcissist - or bi-polar or borderline. Those were words she tos...
ARIEL GORE
The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.
GORE VIDAL
Never have children, only grand children.
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Great critics do not explicate a text; they describe it and then report on what they have described,...
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I'm exactly as I appear. There is no warm lovable person inside. Beneath my cold exterior, once you ...
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When Ronald Reagan's career in show business came to an end, he was hired to impersonate, first, a C...
GORE VIDAL
How marvelous books are, crossing worlds and centuries, defeating ignorance and, finally, cruel time...
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There is hardly an American male of my generation who has not at one time or another tried to master...
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Of course, it is possible for any citizen with time to spare, and a canny eye, to work out what is a...
GORE VIDAL
The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western World. No Fi...
GORE VIDAL
You're talking to someone who really understands rock music.
TIPPER GORE
For half a century, photography has been the art form of the untalented. Obviously some pictures are...
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As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to ill...
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There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.
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If most men and women were forced to rely upon physical charm to attract lovers, their sexual lives ...
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Democracy is supposed to give you the feeling of choice, like Painkiller X and Painkiller Y. But the...
GORE VIDAL
Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues an...
GORE VIDAL
Laughing at someone else is an excellent way of learning how to laugh at oneself; and questioning wh...
GORE VIDAL
It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imag...
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Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.
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In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you're a great writer, ...
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To a man, ornithologists are tall, slender, and bearded so that they can stand motionless for hours,...
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I'm all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.
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If most men and women were forced to rely upon physical charm to attract lovers, their sexual live...
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Half the American population no longer reads newspapers: plainly, they are the clever half.
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Style is knowing who you are, what to say, and not giving a damn.
GORE VIDAL
All the other candidates are making speeches about how much they have done for their country, which ...
GORE VIDAL
Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence t...
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