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Quotes from Homage to Daniel Shays : Collected Essays — Gore Vidal

1925–2012 United States

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The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.

Homage to Daniel Shays : Collected Essays (1972)

I am at heart a propagandist, a tremendous hater, a tiresome nag, complacently positive that there is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.

Homage to Daniel Shays : Collected Essays (1972)

At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation, and prejudice.

Homage to Daniel Shays : Collected Essays (1972)

The more money an American accumulates the less interesting he himself becomes.

Homage to Daniel Shays : Collected Essays (1972)

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