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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.
Gore Vidal
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Gore Vidal
Age: 86 †
Born: 1925
Born: October 3
Died: 2012
Died: July 31
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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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Drugs. If they did not exist our governors would have invented them in order to prohibit them and so make much of the population vulnerable to arrest, imprisonment, seizure of property, and so on.
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I don't see us winning the war. We have made enemies of one billion Muslims.
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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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Then die. We must all do that. But die, as they say, game.
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I'm a much worse guest than I am a host, and I'm not an awfully good host either. I really like being alone.
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Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they're scraping the top of the barrel.
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I was the first - I was extremely unpopular with the establishment of the United States, particularly the New York Times was always an enemy, and Time magazine, off and on, the enemy, because I said things and took positions that other people didn't do.
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I'm not for real revolutions, because they always bring you the opposite of what you want. You very seldom get what you want if you have a violent revolution.
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In Southern Europe, we have, of course, very bad governments.
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When anyone says to me, 'Can you keep a secret?' I say, 'Why should I, if you can't?'
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Politics is made up of two words: Poli, which is Greek for many, and tics, which are bloodsucking insects.
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When the Presidential virus attacks the system there is a tendency for the patient in his fever to move from the Right or the Left to the Center where the curative votes are.
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