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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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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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In matters of faith, inconvenient evidence is always suppressed while contradictions go unnoticed.
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Can you imagine having a love affair going on and on decade after decade? Macabre.
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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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The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity - much less dissent.
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The unfed mind devours itself.
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In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you're a great writer, you must say that you are.
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Presidents have absolutely gone against the will of Congress. Congress hasn't declared a war since December 7, 1941, and yet we've been at war ever since with somebody or other in order to justify the war machine. Now we have alienated almost the entire earth
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The brain that doesn't feed itself, eats itself.
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Who gives a damn about being remembered? That's really for amateurs.
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When anyone says to me, 'Can you keep a secret?' I say, 'Why should I, if you can't?'
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Sex was a great no-no for Americans, so that was obviously an attraction to the writers, and since sex is a great part of most people's lives, it's a great subject.
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That peculiarly American religion, President-worship.
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We have been at war almost constantly since the last century. And it has not helped our institutions. Congress no longer represents the people. The courts do not practice justice any more. The armies never stop playing at being the policemen of the world and of oil.
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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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Fifty percent of people won't vote, and fifty percent don't read newspapers. I hope it's the same fifty percent.
Gore Vidal
We were to be forever at war with somebody. We were going to fight communism everywhere on earth even if it didn't threaten us. It was a holy war, just as we've made one on terrorism and Islam, equally stupid and equally irrelevant.
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The fool is often oblivious of his own gaucherie.
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The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.
Gore Vidal
Always a godfather, never a god.
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