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Realism has always been called cynicism.
Gore Vidal
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Gore Vidal
Age: 86 †
Born: 1925
Born: October 3
Died: 2012
Died: July 31
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I regard monotheism as the greatest disaster ever to befall the human race. I see no good in Judaism, Christianity, or Islam - good people, yes, but any religion based on a single, well, frenzied and virulent god, is not as useful to the human race as, say, Confucianism, which is not a religion but an ethical and educational system.
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Ultimately, totalitarianism is the only sort of politics that can truly serve the sky-god's purpose. Any movement of a liberal nature endangers his authority and that of his delegates on earth. One God, one King, one Pope, one master in the factory, one father-leader in the family at home.
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There are a great many people who have a vested interest in maintaining the stupidity of the American public.
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From the age of 1 to 6 there is a small percentage that is exclusively homosexual, a small percentage heterosexual and there's a wide band in the middle of people who respond to various stimuli. A little bit here, a little more there.
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They are longing for a war with Iran. Iran is no more a harm to us than was Iraq or Afghanistan. They invented an enemy, they tell lies, lies, lies. The New York Times goes along with their lies, lies, lies. And they don't stop. When the public that's lied to 30 times a day it's apt to believe the lies, is not it?
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Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either.
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For true happiness, it is not enough to be successful oneself . . . one's friends must fail.
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Fifty percent of people won't vote, and fifty percent don't read newspapers. I hope it's the same fifty percent.
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People like to re-invent you, according to cliché. There are a lot of stores about me that really apply only to Capote or Mailer or somebody else. Everything is a mish mash.
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Never have varmints, only grandvarmints.
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If you're a critic of the rulers of the United States, you are either demonized, or you are trivialized by the press, and they do a very good job of making you into a non-person or a ridiculous person.
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I look into my own black heart.
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I was never my own type so I completely missed my beauty all through my youth.
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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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Age bothers everybody. I was never narcissistic about my looks, but people thought that I should be so therefore I was.
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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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Liberal comes from the Latin liberalis, which means pertaining to a free man. In politics, to be liberal is to want to extend democracy through change and reform. One can see why that word had to be erased from our political lexicon.
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I suppose my liking for Italy is partly atavism, my family are of the old Roman stock. They came from the Alps north of Venice.
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Andy Warhol is the only genius I've ever known with an IQ of 60.
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Most writers write books that they wouldn't read. I ought to know I've done it myself.
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