Gore Vidal Quotes on Work
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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.
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In any case, write what you know will always be excellent advice to those who ought not to write at all.
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I shared, naturally, in that hatred of organized labor which has been the one political constant in my lifetime, culminating in Ronald Reagan's most popular gesture, the smashing of the air-controllers' union. No alternative view of organized labor has ever come to us through the popular media. If labor leaders were not crooks like Jimmy Hoffa, they were in the pay of Moscow.
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I went into a line of work in which jealousy is the principal emotion between practitioners. I don't think I ever suffered from it, because there was no need. But I was aware of it in others, and I found it a regrettable fault.