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There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.
Gore Vidal
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Gore Vidal
Age: 86 †
Born: 1925
Born: October 3
Died: 2012
Died: July 31
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Little Bush says we are at war, but we are not at war because to be at war Congress has to vote for it. He says we are at war on terror, but that is a metaphor, though I doubt if he knows what that means. It's like having a war on dandruff, it's endless and pointless.
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First coffee, then a bowel movement. Then the Muse joins me.
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What other culture could have produced someone like Hemmingway and not seen the joke?
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The people are not stupid, but they are totally misinformed.
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It never occurred to any Enlightenment figure in the eighteenth century that law was not preferable to man.
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Of course, it is possible for any citizen with time to spare, and a canny eye, to work out what is actually going on, but for the many there is not time, and the network news is the only news even though it may not be news at all but only a series of flashing fictions.
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I started to read my first book at about the age of six. I started to write a book simultaneously. Not to compete, just to augment. And that's how one starts. Or I started.
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Come to me and show me a small cancer and I'll tell you you've got a small cancer that should be cut out. That's realism but in America it's called cynicism.
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Write something, even if it's just a suicide note.
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The word heterosexual is an adjective, the word homosexual is an adjective. They describe an activity. Of course there's a homosexual activity of course there's a heterosexual activity. But there's no homosexual person. There's no heterosexual person. Everybody is everything.
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I don't seem to be cynical to myself but how what I say goes down with others is their problem. I'm realistic.
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Since I ought to be arrogant, impressed with my social position, overwhelmed by my beauty, therefore I am. Actually I was never my own type so I completely missed my beauty all through my youth. I have no social position and I stay away from what is known as society as much as possible. But people like to re-invent you, according to cliché.
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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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The behaviour of President Bush on 11 September certainly gives rise to not unnatural suspicions.
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A good deed never goes unpunished.
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Traitors who prevail are patriots usurpers who succeed are divine emperors.
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The fool is often oblivious of his own gaucherie.
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When the Presidential virus attacks the system there is a tendency for the patient in his fever to move from the Right or the Left to the Center where the curative votes are.
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Age bothers everybody. I was never narcissistic about my looks, but people thought that I should be so therefore I was.
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Poor John Simon - what a nightmare, to wake up in the morning and realize that you are John Simon.
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