"You know, I've been around the ruling class all my life, and I've been quite aware of their total contempt for the people of the country."

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Source : "Gore Vidal on the media". Interview with Paul Jay, therealnews.com. July 11, 2007.

Gore Vidal

#Country Quotes #Class Quotes #People Quotes

“These things bring you to reality as to how fragile you are; at the same moment you are doing something that nobody else is able to do. The same moment that you are seen as the best, the fastest and somebody that cannot be touched, you are enormously fragile.”
“People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.”
“I got married because I fell in love with this woman. I had a baby with her because we wanted to have children. But that's not because of some philosophical ideal at all, no.”
“Faith cannot be inherited or gained by being baptized into a Church. Faith is a matter between the individual and God.”
“Actual life was chaos, but there was something terribly logical in the imagination. It was the imagination that set remorse to dog the feet of sin. It was the imagination that made each crime bear its misshapen brood. In the common world of fact the wicked were not punished, nor the good rewarded. Success was given to the strong, failure thrust upon the weak. That was all.”
“It used to be a common saying of Myson's that men ought not to seek for things in words, but for words in things; for that things are not made on account of words but that words are put together for the sake of things.”
“You attract what you are, not what you want. So if you want it then reflect it!”

Source : FaceBook post by Tony A. Gaskins Jr from Aug 23, 2012
“I have learned from my mistakes, and I am sure I can repeat them exactly”

Source : Source: www.ebony.com

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