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Gore Vidal
Age: 86 †
Born: 1925
Born: October 3
Died: 2012
Died: July 31
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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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It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four percent of the people.
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I’m not a conspiracy theorist - I’m a conspiracy analyst.
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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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For the average American, freedom of speech is simply the freedom to repeat what everyone else is saying and no more.
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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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In matters of faith, inconvenient evidence is always suppressed while contradictions go unnoticed.
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Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both die.
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It is of no consequence to you what others think of you. What matters is what you think of them. That is how you live your life.
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To a born-again atheist like myself, it is clear that each of us has multiple selves, talents, perceptions. But to the Roman Catholic, unity is all.
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Realism has always been called cynicism.
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What is there to say, finally, except that pain is bad and pleasure good, life all, death nothing.
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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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You know, I've been around the ruling class all my life, and I've been quite aware of their total contempt for the people of the country.
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That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president.
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The real writer learns nothing from life. He is more like an oyster or a sponge.
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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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I look into my own black heart.
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I sometimes think it is because they are so bad at expressing themselves verbally that writers take to pen and paper in the first place
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[Norman Mailer] is against masturbation, he's against homosexuality. He believes that murder is essentially sexual. I think he's rather an anthology of all the darkest American traits.
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