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Gore Vidal
Age: 86 †
Born: 1925
Born: October 3
Died: 2012
Died: July 31
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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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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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France is a nation devoted to the false hypothesis on which it then builds marvelously logical structures.
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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.
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All Americans born between 1890 and 1945 wanted to be movie stars.
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Precocious talents mature slowly if at all.
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Freud did some serious damage to American literature - a lot of writers began therapy in the 1940s, after which they all became terribly egocentric.
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Southerners make good novelists: they have so many stories because they have so much family.
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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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The greatest pleasure when I started making money was not buying cars or yachts but finding myself able to have as many freshly typed drafts as possible.
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Come to me and show me a small cancer and I'll tell you you've got a small cancer that should be cut out. That's realism but in America it's called cynicism.
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I don't see us winning the war. We have made enemies of one billion Muslims.
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The real writer learns nothing from life. He is more like an oyster or a sponge.
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Then die. We must all do that. But die, as they say, game.
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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.
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I was the first - I was extremely unpopular with the establishment of the United States, particularly the New York Times was always an enemy, and Time magazine, off and on, the enemy, because I said things and took positions that other people didn't do.
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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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They are longing for a war with Iran. Iran is no more a harm to us than was Iraq or Afghanistan. They invented an enemy, they tell lies, lies, lies. The New York Times goes along with their lies, lies, lies. And they don't stop. When the public that's lied to 30 times a day it's apt to believe the lies, is not it?
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Apparently, 'conspiracy stuff' is now shorthand for unspeakable truth.
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Who gives a damn about being remembered? That's really for amateurs.
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