American - Novelist | October 3, 1925 - July 31, 2012
Having no contemporaries left means you cannot say, 'Well, so-and-so will like this,' which you do when you're younger. You realize there is no so-and-so anymore. You are your own so-and-so. There is a bleak side to it.
Gore Vidal
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Some of my father's fellow West Pointers once asked him why I turned out so well, his secret in raising me. And he said, 'I never gave him any advice, and he never asked for any.' We agreed on nothing, but we never quarreled once.
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The truth about Pearl Harbour is obscured to this day. But it has been much studied.
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Policemen are seldom tried for their crimes, or indeed, held responsible for what they do, which disturbs the peace and causes distress among the orderly.
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What the police in their ignorance have not figured out is that they have lost all credibility since World War II. They are sort of parasites on the fringe of society and do no particular good for anyone except possibly themselves.
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Why not just eliminate the federal income tax?
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Jews, blacks and homosexuals are despised by the Christian and Communist majorities of East and West. Also, as a result of the invention of Israel, Jews can now count on the hatred of the Islamic world.
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A racial or religious or tribal identity is a kind of fact.
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In the German concentration camps, Jews wore yellow stars while homosexuals wore pink lambdas.
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TV news is not very instructive.
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A friend was surprised to hear me say that there was not one moment of my past that I would like to relive.
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I am only at home in the present.
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