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The United States is my subject, but as Hawthorne once wrote, the United States are suited for many admirable purposes, but not to live in.
Gore Vidal
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Gore Vidal
Age: 86 †
Born: 1925
Born: October 3
Died: 2012
Died: July 31
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We were to be forever at war with somebody. We were going to fight communism everywhere on earth even if it didn't threaten us. It was a holy war, just as we've made one on terrorism and Islam, equally stupid and equally irrelevant.
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To bring into the world an unwanted human being is as antisocial an act as murder.
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A writer represents his family history. My grandfather was a senator and my father served in the Roosevelt administration. In other words, I grew up in politics. This is why it seemed perfectly natural to take part in the battles of my time, and to participate in the writing of the history of my country.
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The family in the West is finished... its origin was economic, not biological... the odd group of strangers that make up every family no longer have any reason to live together, to suffer from one another's jagged edges.
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USA is suffering between imperialists and anti-imperialists. That is the situation. The most powerful country in the world is on its way back to the Stone Age.
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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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Next to I win, I told you so are the sweetest words.
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Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.
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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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Obviously I'm in favor of protecting the rights of everybody: gay, black, women, what have you, American Indians.
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You can only have a war with another country. You can't have a war with bad temper or a war against paranoids.
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France is a nation devoted to the false hypothesis on which it then builds marvelously logical structures.
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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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Everybody likes a bit of gossip to some point, as long as it's gossip with some point to it. That's why I like history. History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true.
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To justify and extol human greed and egotism is to my mind not only immoral, but evil.
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The behaviour of President Bush on 11 September certainly gives rise to not unnatural suspicions.
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Terrorism is a metaphor, it's an abstract noun. It's like having a war on dandruff. It's something from advertising, it's meaningless.
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