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Gore Vidal
Age: 86 †
Born: 1925
Born: October 3
Died: 2012
Died: July 31
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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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The problem with most Americans is that they don't like any question that takes more than ten seconds to answer.
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Having no talent is no longer enough.
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Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.
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Ultimately, totalitarianism is the only sort of politics that can truly serve the sky-god's purpose. Any movement of a liberal nature endangers his authority and that of his delegates on earth. One God, one King, one Pope, one master in the factory, one father-leader in the family at home.
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Who gives a damn about being remembered? That's really for amateurs.
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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 Southern Europe, we have, of course, very bad governments.
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Never offend an enemy in a small way.
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In matters of faith, inconvenient evidence is always suppressed while contradictions go unnoticed.
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The Puritans left England for America not because they couldn't be Puritans in their mother country, but because they were not allowed to force others to become Puritans in the New World, of course, they could and did.
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People have forgotten the effects of prohibition. We have become the United Statesof Amnesia.
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The first TV babies are now writing with a TV mind that has no attention span at all.
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Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made.
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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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You can improve your talent, but your talent is a given, a mysterious constant. You must make it the best of its kind.
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I have never been particularly impressed by the self centered musings of my fellow writers.
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Now the long-feared Asiatic colossus takes its turn as world leader, and we--the white race--have become the yellow man's burden.Let us hope that he will treat us more kindly than we treated him.
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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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The same people own the media that own the White House that own the Congress that own the oil fields. They all work together to give a false view of the world to the American people.
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