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Gore Vidal
Age: 86 †
Born: 1925
Born: October 3
Died: 2012
Died: July 31
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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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Since I ought to be arrogant, impressed with my social position, overwhelmed by my beauty, therefore I am. Actually I was never my own type so I completely missed my beauty all through my youth. I have no social position and I stay away from what is known as society as much as possible. But people like to re-invent you, according to cliché.
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I don't think contemporary writers spend a lot of time reading each other. Particularly writers of the same nationality.
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I'm not for real revolutions, because they always bring you the opposite of what you want. You very seldom get what you want if you have a violent revolution.
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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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A talent for drama is not a talent for writing, but is ability to articulate human relationships.
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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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You see we adults have learned how to disguise our terrible characters but a child... well, it's like a grotesque drawing of us. They should be neither seen nor heard. And no one must make another one.
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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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American laws don't work, but at least the laws of physics might work.
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The behaviour of President Bush on 11 September certainly gives rise to not unnatural suspicions.
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No reform ever came from the bottom, and it was always people who understood how the ruling class worked who turned out to be the reformers.
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The world came so close to self-destruction during my lifetime. I was serving in the American Army, in the Pacific, at the time they bombed Hiroshima and then Nagasaki, and I felt there something like a foretaste of the end of the world.
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Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.
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Vitriolic really is personal. I am vitriolic. I am savage.
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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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All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world.
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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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I'm a true reactionary. Like all patricians, I'd like to restore the original republic, which we lost 40 years ago when Harry Truman imposed the national security state on us, which has kept us at war, hot or cold, for almost half a century, and it's got us $4 trillion into debt.
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I believe there's something very salutary in, say, beating up a gay-bashing policeman. Preferably one fights through the courts, through the laws, through education, but if at a neighborhood level violence is necessary, I'm all for violence. It's the only thing Americans understand.
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