American - Novelist | October 3, 1925 - July 31, 2012
I don't know how prisoners of war are ever heroes unless they escape.
Gore Vidal
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I sometimes think it is because they are so bad at expressing themselves verbally that writers take to pen and paper in the first place.
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There's a lot to be said for being nouveau riche, and the Reagans mean to say it all.
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We're not a democracy.
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The behaviour of President Bush on 11 September certainly gives rise to not unnatural suspicions.
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Now you have people in Washington who have no interest in the country at all. They're interested in their companies, their corporations grabbing Caspian oil.
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Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.
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In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you're a great writer, you must say that you are.
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It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true.
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There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.
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All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world.
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On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.
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