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It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true.
Gore Vidal
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Gore Vidal
Age: 86 †
Born: 1925
Born: October 3
Died: 2012
Died: July 31
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Drugs. If they did not exist our governors would have invented them in order to prohibit them and so make much of the population vulnerable to arrest, imprisonment, seizure of property, and so on.
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In matters of faith, inconvenient evidence is always suppressed while contradictions go unnoticed.
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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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Everything's wrong on Wikipedia.
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Most writers write books that they wouldn't read. I ought to know I've done it myself.
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Nothing human is finally calculable even to ourselves we are strange.
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I'm a true reactionary. Like all patricians, I'd like to restore the original republic, which we lost 40 years ago when Harry Truman imposed the national security state on us, which has kept us at war, hot or cold, for almost half a century, and it's got us $4 trillion into debt.
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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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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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Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either.
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Congress no longer declares war or makes budgets. So that's the end of the constitution as a working machine.
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What other culture could have produced someone like Hemmingway and not seen the joke?
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The real writer learns nothing from life. He is more like an oyster or a sponge.
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Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.
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Our rulers for more than half a century have made sure that we are never to be told the truth about anything that our government has done to other people, not to mention our own.
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I said, well, it's a very primitive country, the United States, and it's full of superstitions, which come out of a very fundamental religious bias, which is primitive Christianity.
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Maybe there is no good God. But there is definitely a devil, and his predominant passion is the religion of Protestant fundamentalists. I believe my country is beginning to resemble a theocracy. Using television, the evangelists raise appalling amounts of money which they then invest in the election of mentally disabled obscurantists.
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As one gets older, litigation replaces sex.
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There is no such thing as a true account of anything.
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