American - Novelist | October 3, 1925 - July 31, 2012
Like most readers, I tend to skip the acknowledgements at the beginnings of books: the 'To-My-Wife-Without-Whose-Invaluable-Assistance' kind of thing.
Gore Vidal
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Temperamentally, I am suspicious of belonging to anything. When I ran for office, I debated seriously whether or not to run as an independent because I was not eager to be saddled with the Democratic Party, because any party label is committing.
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There are so many things the people who take polls never get around to asking.
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Most children tell themselves stories in which they figure as powerful figures, enjoying the pleasures not only of the adult world as they conceive it but of a world of wonders unlike dull reality.
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After adolescence, if one's life is sufficiently interesting, the desire to tell oneself stories diminishes.
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The individual's desire to dominate his environment is not a desirable trait in a society which every day grows more and more confining.
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To preserve the human race, it is now necessary to reorganize society. To this end, an Authority must be created with the power to control human population, to redistribute food, to purify air, water, soil, to re-pattern the cities.
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In classical times, it was a capital offense to speculate upon the hour of a king's death or upon the identity of his successor.
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Americans are future-minded to the point of obsession. We are impatient at living in the present. Tomorrow is bound to be better... next year, next century, always what might be rather than what is. This trait in us makes for 'progress;' it also makes for a continuing dissatisfaction.
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An important governorship used to be the best springboard for would-be presidents.
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Most of our writers tend to be recorders.
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McCain is significant in the sense that he has no significance at all on any subject.
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