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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
Gore Vidal
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Gore Vidal
Age: 86 †
Born: 1925
Born: October 3
Died: 2012
Died: July 31
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I'm in Hollywood right now, surrounded by nothing but the sons and grandsons of movie stars.
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Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made.
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Democracy is something America has never really practiced. Because the Founding Fathers hated two things: monarchy and democracy. They wanted a republic, a replica of the Roman or Venetian republics. They didn't even like the etymology of the word democracy.
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On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.
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Politics is made up of two words: Poli, which is Greek for many, and tics, which are bloodsucking insects.
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They are longing for a war with Iran. Iran is no more a harm to us than was Iraq or Afghanistan. They invented an enemy, they tell lies, lies, lies. The New York Times goes along with their lies, lies, lies. And they don't stop. When the public that's lied to 30 times a day it's apt to believe the lies, is not it?
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A writer represents his family history. My grandfather was a senator and my father served in the Roosevelt administration. In other words, I grew up in politics. This is why it seemed perfectly natural to take part in the battles of my time, and to participate in the writing of the history of my country.
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What begins with comedy ends with comedy... in my short view of the matter.
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You can only have a war with another country. You can't have a war with bad temper or a war against paranoids.
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Class is the most difficult subject for American writers to deal with as it is the most difficult for the English to avoid.
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To justify and extol human greed and egotism is to my mind not only immoral, but evil.
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Despite the warnings of other times, the impetuous and the confident continue their indiscriminate cultivation of weeds at the expense of occasional flowers.
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I'd still like to be the President, of course, and I think the best way to do that would be to raise an army and seize the Capital. This strikes me as true democracy.
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Obviously I'm in favor of protecting the rights of everybody: gay, black, women, what have you, American Indians.
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Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.
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Precocious talents mature slowly if at all.
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The word 'radical' derives from the Latin word for root. Therefore, if you want to get to the root of anything you must be radical. It is no accident that the word has now been totally demonized.
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Everything's wrong on Wikipedia.
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The whole point to American journalism is what ought to be true is true. Since I ought to be arrogant, impressed with my social position, overwhelmed by my beauty, therefore I am.
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