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Gore Vidal
Age: 86 †
Born: 1925
Born: October 3
Died: 2012
Died: July 31
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People have forgotten the effects of prohibition. We have become the United Statesof Amnesia.
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Americans are not only a less homogenous population than we were when we were 3 million ex-colonists, but we're less educated. On top of that, we have constant misinformation and manipulation by media.
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Every time a friend succeeds, I die a little.
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The U.S. Bill of Rights is being steadily eroded, with two million telephone calls tapped, 30 million workers under electronic surveillance, and, says the author, countless Americans harassed by a government that wages spurious wars against drugs and terrorism.
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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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There are certain truths so true that they are practically unbelievable.
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In writing and politicking, it's best not to think about it, just do it.
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...you will do more harm than good by attempting to supplant old dogmas and customs with new dogmas. It will be the same in the end except that the old is less militant, less dangerous than a new order imposed by enthusiasts.
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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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Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they're scraping the top of the barrel.
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Next to I win, I told you so are the sweetest words.
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Constant work, constant writing and constant revision. The real writer learns nothing from life. He is more like an oyster or a sponge. What he takes in he takes in normally the way any person takes in experience. But it is what is done with it in his mind, if he is a real writer, that makes his art.
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Writing of history is our only heuristic principle. The Germans have a word for it, einfühlen. It is the ability to experience the past in the present and to recreate it. In my books, I have tried to recreate it in the most natural way possible: History must be integrated into the story without the weight of premonition.
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There are a great many people who have a vested interest in maintaining the stupidity of the American public.
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Persuading the people to vote against their own best interests has been the awesome genius of the American political elite from the beginning.
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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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Sex is a continuum. You go through different phases along life's way... and if you don't, you've been sort of cheated.
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If you're a critic of the rulers of the United States, you are either demonized, or you are trivialized by the press, and they do a very good job of making you into a non-person or a ridiculous person.
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