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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
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Gore Vidal
Age: 86 †
Born: 1925
Born: October 3
Died: 2012
Died: July 31
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I was brought up to believe that what is out-of-doors should stay there and not be encouraged in any way.
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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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All Americans born between 1890 and 1945 wanted to be movie stars.
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Celebrities are invariably celebrity-mad, just as liars always believe liars.
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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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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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Commercialism is doing well that which should not be done at all.
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Before the cards that one is dealt by life are the cards that fate has dealt: one's family.
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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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The New York Times is the worst in that hardly anybody can write English over there. Most of it reads like slight translations from the German.
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American laws don't work, but at least the laws of physics might work.
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Liberal comes from the Latin liberalis, which means pertaining to a free man. In politics, to be liberal is to want to extend democracy through change and reform. One can see why that word had to be erased from our political lexicon.
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I have been saying for the some time now that America has only one party - the property party. It's the party of big corporation, the party of money. It has two right wings one is Democrat and the other is Republican.
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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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What we are is seldom what we want to be, while what we want to be is either denied us or changes with the seasons.
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Everybody has two legs, two lobes to the brain which is why we tend to be interested in symmetry, always balancing things.
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That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president.
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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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There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.
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The United States was founded by the brightest people in the country — and we haven't seen them since.
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