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It is reasonable to assume that, by and large, what is not read now will not be read, ever. It is also reasonable to assume that practically nothing that is read now will be read later.

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Gore Vidal
Age: 86 †
Born: 1925
Born: October 3
Died: 2012
Died: July 31
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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 makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four percent of the people.
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The people are not stupid, but they are totally misinformed.
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I don't seem to be cynical to myself but how what I say goes down with others is their problem. I'm realistic.
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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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Precocious talents mature slowly if at all.
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As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.
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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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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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I'd still like to be the President, of course, and I think the best way to do that would be to raise an army and seize the Capital. This strikes me as true democracy.
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The brain that doesn't feed itself, eats itself.
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In a nation that has developed to a high art advertising, the creator who refuses to advertise himself is immediately suspected of having no product worth selling.
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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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Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild.
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There is no such thing as a true account of anything.
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Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they're scraping the top of the barrel.
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Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.
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One of the most fascinating aspects of politician-watching is trying to determine to what extent any politician believes what he says.
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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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To speak today of a famous novelist is like speaking of a famous cabinetmaker or speedboat designer. Adjective is inappropriate to noun.
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