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I’m not a conspiracy theorist - I’m a conspiracy analyst.

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Gore Vidal
Age: 86 †
Born: 1925
Born: October 3
Died: 2012
Died: July 31
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[ New York ] is a place that worships incompetence particularly if it's combined with energy and paranoid self-confidence. Only in a city like New York could Truman Capote have made it, or John Simon.
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Precocious talents mature slowly if at all.
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As one gets older, litigation replaces sex.
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All I want is that Americans still be able to read the alphabet in a hundred years. I am not very ambitious.
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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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Persuading the people to vote against their own best interests has been the awesome genius of the American political elite from the beginning.
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The behaviour of President Bush on 11 September certainly gives rise to not unnatural suspicions.
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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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If satire is to be effective, the audience must be aware of the thing satirized.
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My father had a deep and lifelong contempt for politicians in general (They tell lies, he used to say with wonder, even when they don't have to).
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Baum (Writer of THE WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ) was a true educator, and those who read his Oz books are often made what they were not-imaginative , tolerant, alert to wonders, life.
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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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It never occurred to any Enlightenment figure in the eighteenth century that law was not preferable to man.
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It is notable how little empathy is cultivated or valued in our society. I put this down to our traditional racism and obsessive sectarianism. Even so, one would think that we would be encouraged to project ourselves into the character of someone of a different race or class, if only to be able to control him. But no effort is made.
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What is there to say, finally, except that pain is bad and pleasure good, life all, death nothing.
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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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Age bothers everybody. I was never narcissistic about my looks, but people thought that I should be so therefore I was.
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Nonprofit status is what created the Bible Belt. The tax code brought religion back to this country.
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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
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Every time a friend succeeds, I die a little.
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