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Nonprofit status is what created the Bible Belt. The tax code brought religion back to this country.
Gore Vidal
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Gore Vidal
Age: 86 †
Born: 1925
Born: October 3
Died: 2012
Died: July 31
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Before the cards that one is dealt by life are the cards that fate has dealt: one's family.
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There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.
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The whole point to American journalism is what ought to be true is true. Since I ought to be arrogant, impressed with my social position, overwhelmed by my beauty, therefore I am.
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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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To bring into the world an unwanted human being is as antisocial an act as murder.
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All I want is that Americans still be able to read the alphabet in a hundred years. I am not very ambitious.
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Never have children, only grandchildren.
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The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.
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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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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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The United States was founded by the brightest people in the country — and we haven't seen them since.
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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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Half the American population no longer reads newspapers: plainly, they are the clever half.
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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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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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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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I was never my own type so I completely missed my beauty all through my youth.
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Ideally, the writer needs no audience other than the few who understand that it is immodest and greedy to want more.
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Since nothing is free, to each his price.
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Each writer is born with a repertory company in his head.
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