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The New York Times is the worst in that hardly anybody can write English over there. Most of it reads like slight translations from the German.

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Gore Vidal
Age: 86 †
Born: 1925
Born: October 3
Died: 2012
Died: July 31
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We have been at war almost constantly since the last century. And it has not helped our institutions. Congress no longer represents the people. The courts do not practice justice any more. The armies never stop playing at being the policemen of the world and of oil.
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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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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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The whole point to American journalism is what ought to be true is true.
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Where there is no desire or pursuits, there is no wholeness. But there are satisfying lesser states, fragments.
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Since nothing is free, to each his price.
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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.
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Celebrities are invariably celebrity-mad, just as liars always believe liars.
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Never have children, only grandchildren.
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Never offend an enemy in a small way.
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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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We affect one another quite enough merely by existing. Whenever the stars cross, or is it comets? fragments pass briefly from one orbit to another. On rare occasions there is total collision, but most often the two simply continue without incident, neither losing more than a particle to the other, in passing.
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A superficial education would be worse than none. But a full education would open every man's eyes to the nature of human existence.
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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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When anyone says to me, 'Can you keep a secret?' I say, 'Why should I, if you can't?'
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It is of no consequence to you what others think of you. What matters is what you think of them. That is how you live your life.
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The same people own the media that own the White House that own the Congress that own the oil fields. They all work together to give a false view of the world to the American people.
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Then die. We must all do that. But die, as they say, game.
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I think we're going to have to accept the fact the U.S. is off the world map. We are not a great player any longer. And when we come home - as we will have to do because we've run out of money - we will discover that Argentine debts means Argentine politics. And on that note, you can wake up in the middle of the night.
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That peculiarly American religion, President-worship.
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