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Writers since at least the heyday of Gore Vidal have bemoaned their audience's defection to other forms of entertainment.
— Garth Risk Hallberg
To me hair dressing means shape. It's very important that the foundations should be right.
— Vidal Sassoon
I read Noam Chomsky. I like some of Gore Vidal's stuff.
— John Cusack
All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.
— Gore Vidal
Love is a fan club with only two fans.
— Gore Vidal
It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
— Vidal Sassoon
To prevent the theft of 'Ben-Hur's sets, guards were prowling the back lot long after production had been shut down.
— Gore Vidal
I get to be creative and touch other people's lives.
— Lisa Vidal
Does one ever read a politician's books?
— Gore Vidal
Before the cards that one is dealt by life are the cards that fate has dealt: one's family.
— Gore Vidal
Nothing that Shakespeare ever invented was to equal Lincoln's invention of himself and, in the process, us.
— Gore Vidal
I deny that there's such a thing as a gay person. I deny there's such a thing as a heterosexual person.
— Gore Vidal
Southerners make good novelists: they have so many stories because they have so much family.
— Gore Vidal
I came out of Capitol Hill. Well, that's just not an ordinary background for a writer of the ordinary American sort.
— Gore Vidal
I think I have a normal threshold of anger, but it's true that I am, by nature, belligerent.
— Gore Vidal
Congress no longer declares war or makes budgets. So that's the end of the constitution as a working machine.
— Gore Vidal
Television is a great leveler. You always end up sounding like the people who ask the questions.
— Gore Vidal
Lastly I would like to thank all of the assholes in the world, without which this book would not be possible.
— Albert Vidal
I'm involved with Children's Hospital Los Angeles. I love anything that helps and improves the life of children.
— Lisa Vidal
Ronald Reagan: a triumph of the embalmer's art.
— Gore Vidal
As a schoolboy, I read most of Carl Sandburg's six-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln.
— Gore Vidal
Fifty percent of people won't vote, and fifty percent don't read newspapers. I hope it's the same fifty percent.
— Gore Vidal
Write something, even if it's just a suicide note.
— Gore Vidal
I never reread a text until I have finished the first draft. Otherwise it's too discouraging.
— Gore Vidal
Hairdressing in general hasn't been given the kudos it deserves. It's not recognised by enough people as a worthy craft.
— Vidal Sassoon
After adolescence, if one's life is sufficiently interesting, the desire to tell oneself stories diminishes.
— Gore Vidal
Deceit and lying make me feel vulnerable.
— Lisa Vidal
There is a terrible garrulousness in most American writing, legacy of the old Frontier.
— Gore Vidal
Gore Vidal has been a friend of mine for years, and he's one of the greatest writers in American history.
— Cybill Shepherd
During the late '50s, I had worked on the script of Ben-Hur in an office next to that of the producer Sam Zimbalist.
— Gore Vidal
Vidal Sassoon was the most famous hairstylist in the history of the world.
— John Paul DeJoria
Never have varmints, only grandvarmints.
— Gore Vidal
Ronald Reagan is a triumph of the embalmer's art.
— Gore Vidal
I'm a great jazz fan.
— Vidal Sassoon
Although Americans justify their self-interest in moral terms, their true interest is never itself moral.
— Gore Vidal
Mary Quant is my favourite fashion designer.
— Vidal Sassoon
It's hard to give advice. There are so many people, how do you give major advice to a group of people, it's very presumptuous.
— Vidal Sassoon
It never occurred to any Enlightenment figure in the eighteenth century that law was not preferable to man.
— Gore Vidal
It is not enough merely to win; others must lose.
— Gore Vidal
Since nothing is free, to each his price.
— Gore Vidal
My family is Southern. I'm used to Bill Clintons.
— Gore Vidal
Judaism is important to me from a tribal point of view.
— Vidal Sassoon
To be categorized is, simply, to be enslaved
— Gore Vidal
That my plans have lately gone somewhat awry is the sort of risk one must take if life is to be superb.
— Gore Vidal
When you want something so badly, you just do it. You don't think about how hard it's going to be.
— Lisa Vidal
When Franklin says yes, yes, yes, he isn't agreeing with you. He's just listening to you.
— Gore Vidal
The war against terror is like a war against dandruff. It's a metaphor. It's not about anything.
— Gore Vidal
I'm a fervent foe of water pollution, whether it is our own Hudson River or Philadelphia's tap water.
— Gore Vidal
For true happiness, it is not enough to be successful oneself ... one's friends must fail.
— Gore Vidal
Always a godfather, never a god.
— Gore Vidal
