Quote by Gore Vidal
The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more d

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. – Gore Vidal

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Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith. – Gore Vidal

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To a man, ornithologists are tall, slender, and bearded so that they can stand motionless for hours, imitating kindly trees, as they watch for birds. – Gore Vidal

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Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half. – Gore Vidal

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Management must manage! – Harold S. Geneen

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Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning. – John Ruskin

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A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he cant think of anything else to do. – W. H. Auden

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People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel. – William Hazlitt

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