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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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I came out of Capitol Hill. Well, that's just not an ordinary background for a writer of the ordinary American sort.
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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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To bring into the world an unwanted human being is as antisocial an act as murder.
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Persuading the people to vote against their own best interests has been the awesome genius of the American political elite from the beginning.
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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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I am an obsessive rewriter, doing one draft and then another and another, usually five. In a way, I have nothing to say, but a great deal to add.
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[ New York ] is a place that worships incompetence particularly if it's combined with energy and paranoid self-confidence. Only in a city like New York could Truman Capote have made it, or John Simon.
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I'm in Hollywood right now, surrounded by nothing but the sons and grandsons of movie stars.
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Commercialism is doing well that which should not be done at all.
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We must declare ourselves, become known allow the world to discover this subterranean life of ours which connects kings and farm boys, artists and clerks. Let them see that the important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.
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The problem with most Americans is that they don't like any question that takes more than ten seconds to answer.
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Yet in a society of conflicting interests the only democratic way in which matters can be improved is through politics, and politics means the compromising of extremes in order to achieve that notorious half loaf which the passionate and the outraged never find sufficient.
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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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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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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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What is a political party but a conspiracy?
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World events are the work of individuals whose motives are often frivolous, even casual.
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CO₂ emissions anywhere threaten civilisation everywhere.
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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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I find in most novels no imagination at all. They seem to think the highest form of the novel is to write about marriage, because that's the most important thing there is for middle-class people.
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