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Gore Vidal
Age: 86 †
Born: 1925
Born: October 3
Died: 2012
Died: July 31
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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 Congress no longer represents the people.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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For true happiness, it is not enough to be successful oneself . . . one's friends must fail.
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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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What is in question is a kind of book reviewing which seems to be more and more popular: the loose putting down of opinions as though they were facts, and the treating of facts as though they were opinions.
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If you're a critic of the rulers of the United States, you are either demonized, or you are trivialized by the press, and they do a very good job of making you into a non-person or a ridiculous person.
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I like Italy. I was always at home there, it's a marvelous place to become invisible. Nobody bothers you and nobody is interested in you and I find that very good for work.
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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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I have no television to go on so I get a lot of writing done. That's my substitute for television.
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Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either.
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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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I might become an ascetic, live in India. A little rice is about the best I can do now.
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The British are absolutely hung up on class, and whenever they start to really - class for the English is like sex for Americans: They start to shake all over when the subject comes up.
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I regard monotheism as the greatest disaster ever to befall the human race. I see no good in Judaism, Christianity, or Islam - good people, yes, but any religion based on a single, well, frenzied and virulent god, is not as useful to the human race as, say, Confucianism, which is not a religion but an ethical and educational system.
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The real writer learns nothing from life. He is more like an oyster or a sponge.
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Andy Warhol is the only genius I've ever known with an IQ of 60.
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People have forgotten the effects of prohibition. We have become the United Statesof Amnesia.
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In fact, life itself is a contradiction if only because birth is the direct cause, in every single case, of death
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To a born-again atheist like myself, it is clear that each of us has multiple selves, talents, perceptions. But to the Roman Catholic, unity is all.
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You hear all this whining going on, Where are our great writers? The thing I might feel doleful about is: Where are the readers?
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Rome ... at its most decadent, had never thought of hiring an actor to go through the motions of being an emperor while the Praetorian Guard ruled.
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