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Gore Vidal
Age: 86 †
Born: 1925
Born: October 3
Died: 2012
Died: July 31
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This separation was absolute in our original Republic. But the sky-godders do not give up easily. In the 1950s they actually got the phrase In God We Trust onto the currency, in direct violation of the First Amendment.
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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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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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Drugs. If they did not exist our governors would have invented them in order to prohibit them and so make much of the population vulnerable to arrest, imprisonment, seizure of property, and so on.
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I am glad my life is coming to an end. To think that it might last another five hundred years, now that would be terrible, in my case.
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In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you're a great writer, you must say that you are.
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Congress no longer declares war or makes budgets. So that's the end of the constitution as a working machine.
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I am an obsessive rewriter, doing one draft and then another and another, usually five. In a way, I have nothing to say, but a great deal to add.
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That peculiarly American religion, President-worship.
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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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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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We are the United States of Amnesia, we learn nothing because we remember nothing.
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From the age of 1 to 6 there is a small percentage that is exclusively homosexual, a small percentage heterosexual and there's a wide band in the middle of people who respond to various stimuli. A little bit here, a little more there.
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It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true.
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Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both die.
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Despite the warnings of other times, the impetuous and the confident continue their indiscriminate cultivation of weeds at the expense of occasional flowers.
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No one reads novels anymore. And I don't see the situation improving. People prefer video games, reality TV, and films. There are so many reasons now not to read novels.
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A good deed never goes unpunished.
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One's neighbor is always the enemy. That is the nature of things.
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The first TV babies are now writing with a TV mind that has no attention span at all.
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