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Gore Vidal


American
October 3, 1925
Novelist
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We're not a democracy.


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Everything's wrong on Wikipedia.


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I am not, at heart, a playwright.


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My family is Southern. I'm used to Bill Clintons.


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All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world.


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I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.


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I'm all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.


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An important governorship used to be the best springboard for would-be presidents.


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Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.


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The only thing that I react really violently to is being misquoted.


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In writing and politicking, it's best not to think about it, just do it.


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I don't even read most reviews, unless there is a potential lawsuit on view.


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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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Remember, I'm West Point, where I was born. My father went there.


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On September 5, 1774, forty-five of the weightiest colonial men formed the First Continental Congress at Philadelphia.
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Like the TV networks, once our government has a hit, it will be repeated over and over again.


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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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By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he's been bought ten times over.


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Sex is. There is nothing more to be done about it. Sex builds no roads, writes no novels and sex certainly gives no meaning to anything in life but itself.
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It is true, as Sartre once wrote, referring to French Army atrocities in Algeria, that the real tragedy in our time is that any of us can be, interchangeably, victim or torturer.
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It is a paradox of the acquisitive society in which we now live that although private morals are regulated by law, the entrepreneur is allowed considerable freedom to use - and abuse - the public in order to make money.
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The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity - much less dissent.
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No sooner does an American president take his oath of office than the speculation begins: Will he be reelected in four years' time? If not, who will succeed him? A member of his own party? The other party?
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In August 1961, I visited President Kennedy at Hyannis Port. The Berlin Wall was going up, and he was about to begin a huge military buildup - reluctantly, or so he said, as he puffed on a cigar liberated by a friend from Castro's Cuba.
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