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You can only have a war with another country. You can't have a war with bad temper or a war against paranoids.
Gore Vidal
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Gore Vidal
Age: 86 †
Born: 1925
Born: October 3
Died: 2012
Died: July 31
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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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To speak today of a famous novelist is like speaking of a famous cabinetmaker or speedboat designer. Adjective is inappropriate to noun.
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Southerners make good novelists: they have so many stories because they have so much family.
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It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four percent of the people.
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Congress no longer declares war or makes budgets. So that's the end of the constitution as a working machine.
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The Puritans left England for America not because they couldn't be Puritans in their mother country, but because they were not allowed to force others to become Puritans in the New World, of course, they could and did.
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In writing and politicking, it's best not to think about it, just do it.
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Now the long-feared Asiatic colossus takes its turn as world leader, and we--the white race--have become the yellow man's burden.Let us hope that he will treat us more kindly than we treated him.
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Democracy is supposed to give you the feeling of choice, like Painkiller X and Painkiller Y. But they're both just aspirin.
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Everything's wrong on Wikipedia.
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One is sorry one could not have taken both branches of the road. But we were not allotted multiple selves.
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Our rulers for more than half a century have made sure that we are never to be told the truth about anything that our government has done to other people, not to mention our own.
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The unfed mind devours itself.
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To bring into the world an unwanted human being is as antisocial an act as murder.
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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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I have never been particularly impressed by the self centered musings of my fellow writers.
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Each writer is born with a repertory company in his head.
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Miss Rand now tells us that what we have thought was right is really wrong. The lesson should have read: One for one and none for all.
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What we are is seldom what we want to be, while what we want to be is either denied us or changes with the seasons.
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I have no television to go on so I get a lot of writing done. That's my substitute for television.
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