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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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Instead of finding alternative energy sources, we try to subjugate entire regions of the world. People do not understand that by doing this, the United States are going to absolute ruin.
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Poor John Simon - what a nightmare, to wake up in the morning and realize that you are John Simon.
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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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I’m not a conspiracy theorist - I’m a conspiracy analyst.
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Constant work, constant writing and constant revision. The real writer learns nothing from life. He is more like an oyster or a sponge. What he takes in he takes in normally the way any person takes in experience. But it is what is done with it in his mind, if he is a real writer, that makes his art.
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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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Having no talent is no longer enough.
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I have begun writing what I have said I'd never write, a memoir (I am not my own subject, I used to say with icy superiority).
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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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I might become an ascetic, live in India. A little rice is about the best I can do now.
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It is notable how little empathy is cultivated or valued in our society. I put this down to our traditional racism and obsessive sectarianism. Even so, one would think that we would be encouraged to project ourselves into the character of someone of a different race or class, if only to be able to control him. But no effort is made.
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Of course, it is possible for any citizen with time to spare, and a canny eye, to work out what is actually going on, but for the many there is not time, and the network news is the only news even though it may not be news at all but only a series of flashing fictions.
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The world came so close to self-destruction during my lifetime. I was serving in the American Army, in the Pacific, at the time they bombed Hiroshima and then Nagasaki, and I felt there something like a foretaste of the end of the world.
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You know, I've been around the ruling class all my life, and I've been quite aware of their total contempt for the people of the country.
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What begins with comedy ends with comedy... in my short view of the matter.
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Writing of history is our only heuristic principle. The Germans have a word for it, einfühlen. It is the ability to experience the past in the present and to recreate it. In my books, I have tried to recreate it in the most natural way possible: History must be integrated into the story without the weight of premonition.
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Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.
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Never have varmints, only grandvarmints.
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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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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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