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Before the cards that one is dealt by life are the cards that fate has dealt: one's family.
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 should stop going around babbling about how we're the greatest democracy on earth, when we're not even a democracy. We are a sort of militarised republic.
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Politics is made up of two words: Poli, which is Greek for many, and tics, which are bloodsucking insects.
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Gentlemen are not supposed to tell the truth about their sex lives, nor are ladies, for that matter. Of course Clinton lied - as would anybody in his position.
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Now you have people in Washington who have no interest in the country at all. They're interested in their companies, their corporations grabbing Caspian oil.
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One's neighbor is always the enemy. That is the nature of things.
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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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The whole point to American journalism is what ought to be true is true.
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For true happiness, it is not enough to be successful oneself . . . one's friends must fail.
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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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You see we adults have learned how to disguise our terrible characters but a child... well, it's like a grotesque drawing of us. They should be neither seen nor heard. And no one must make another one.
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Envy is the central fact of American life.
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Presidents have absolutely gone against the will of Congress. Congress hasn't declared a war since December 7, 1941, and yet we've been at war ever since with somebody or other in order to justify the war machine. Now we have alienated almost the entire earth
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No reform ever came from the bottom, and it was always people who understood how the ruling class worked who turned out to be the reformers.
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Class is the most difficult subject for American writers to deal with as it is the most difficult for the English to avoid.
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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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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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What is in question is a kind of book reviewing which seems to be more and more popular: the loose putting down of opinions as though they were facts, and the treating of facts as though they were opinions.
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That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president.
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The behaviour of President Bush on 11 September certainly gives rise to not unnatural suspicions.
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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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