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That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president.
Gore Vidal
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Gore Vidal
Age: 86 †
Born: 1925
Born: October 3
Died: 2012
Died: July 31
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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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Some of my father's fellow West Pointers once asked him why I turned out so well, his secret in raising me. And he said, I never gave him any advice, and he never asked for any. We agreed on nothing, but we never quarreled once.
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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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For the average American, freedom of speech is simply the freedom to repeat what everyone else is saying and no more.
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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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Miss Rand now tells us that what we have thought was right is really wrong. The lesson should have read: One for one and none for all.
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When you control opinion, as corporate America controls opinion in the United States by owning the media, you can make the masses believe almost anything you want, and guide them as you please.
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Class is the most difficult subject for American writers to deal with as it is the most difficult for the English to avoid.
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Realism has always been called cynicism.
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