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Gore Vidal
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Gore Vidal
Age: 86 †
Born: 1925
Born: October 3
Died: 2012
Died: July 31
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On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.
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The worst thing to happen to Lincoln - aside from the unfortunate incident at Ford's theatre - was to fall into the hands of Carl Sandburg.
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What we are is seldom what we want to be, while what we want to be is either denied us or changes with the seasons.
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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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Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.
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Sex was a great no-no for Americans, so that was obviously an attraction to the writers, and since sex is a great part of most people's lives, it's a great subject.
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I don't see us winning the war. We have made enemies of one billion Muslims.
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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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I might become an ascetic, live in India. A little rice is about the best I can do now.
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The Gores, I think, are a bit brighter than the Bushes, historically speaking.
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If you want to rise in politics in the United States, there is one subject you must stay away from, and that is politics.
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There's no such thing as a war against terrorism. It's idiotic. These are slogans. These are lies. It's advertising, which is the only art form we ever invented and developed.
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In almost every case (where the United States has fought wars) our overwhelming commitment to freedom, democracy and human rights has required us to support those regimes that would deny freedom, democracy and human rights to their own people.
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We are the United States of Amnesia, we learn nothing because we remember nothing.
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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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Everybody has two legs, two lobes to the brain which is why we tend to be interested in symmetry, always balancing things.
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The hatred Americans have for their own government is pathological, if understandable. At one level it is simply thwarted greed: since our religion is making a buck, giving a part of that buck to any government is an act against nature.
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Never have children, only grandchildren.
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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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If you're not part of that club, as I certainly am not, you are not presidential.
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