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Quote by Gore Vidal

“Most writers write books that they wouldn't read. I ought to know; I've done it myself.”

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American writer, playwright, screenwriter, and critic. Known for his sharp political satire and profound historical insight, Vidal's work spans a variety of genres including novels, plays, screenplays, and criticism. more

“It may never come, but I fancy than no man who has sympathy for the human race does not wish that sometime those who labor should have the whole product of their toil. Probably it will never come, but I wish that the time might come when men who work in the industries would own the industries.”

Men Should Humans May Doe Whole Might Wish Business Race Products Industry Labor Should Have Human Race Fancy Toil

Book:Attorney for the Damned: Clarence Darrow in the Courtroom

Source: Attorney for the Damned: Clarence Darrow in the Courtroom

“Education was in danger from the source that always hampered it—religious fanaticism.”

Religious Education Danger Source Fanaticism

Book:Attorney for the Damned: Clarence Darrow in the Courtroom

Source: Attorney for the Damned: Clarence Darrow in the Courtroom

“At their first appearance innovators have always been derided as fools and mad men.”

Men Firsts Fool Mad Appearance Innovators Mad Men

Author:Aldous Huxley

“Take all your dukes and marquesses and earls and viscounts, pack them into one chamber, call it the House of Lords to satisfy their pride and then strip it of all political power. It's a solution so perfectly elegant and preposterous that only the British could have managed it.”

Men Age Political House Politics Lord Power Pride Solutions British Packs Elegant Chamber Political Power Dukes House Of Lords

Author:Charles Krauthammer

“Post-Watergate morality, by which anything left private is taken as presumptive evidence of wrongdoing.”

Left Taken Morality Evidence Posts Miscellaneous Wrongdoing Watergate

Book:Cutting edges: making sense of the eighties

Source: Cutting edges: making sense of the eighties

“After endless days of commuting on the freeway to an antiseptic, sealed-window office, there is a great urge to backpack in the woods and build a fire.”

Fire Office Window Woods Endless Urges Freeways Commuting Build A Fire

Author:Charles Krauthammer

“In the Middle Ages people took potions for their ailments. In the 19th century they took snake oil. Citizens of today's shiny, technological age are too modern for that. They take antioxidants and extract of cactus instead.”

People Age Today Modern Middle Century Citizens Oil Technological Snakes Middle Ages 19th Century Ailments Cactus Antioxidants

Author:Charles Krauthammer

“Middleness is the very enemy of the bold.”

Enemy

Author:Charles Krauthammer

“Nothing means anything here. When they pull down an outstanding building, no one objects. Oh, maybe there's a wee protest from some collectors or something who take a picture of it before it vanishes.”

Mean America Objects Building Protest Outstanding Collectors

Author:Billy Connolly

“A writer is in the broadest sense a spokesman of his community. Through him that community comes to know its heart. Without such knowledge, how long can it survive?”

Knows Writing Heart Long Community

Author:Saul Bellow

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