American - Novelist | October 3, 1925 - July 31, 2012
Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made.
Gore Vidal
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The Pentagon talks about our power to 'overkill' Russia ten times, twenty times, perhaps forty-eight times. For my tax money, it is sufficient to overkill them once.
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There is a terrible garrulousness in most American writing, legacy of the old Frontier.
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The American high school graduate is two years behind his English, French or German counterpart; in Alabama, God knows how far behind.
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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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For the record, I'm a Second World War veteran and served in the Pacific.
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Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.
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Democracy is supposed to give you the feeling of choice, like Painkiller X and Painkiller Y. But they're both just aspirin.
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It's always best to stay out of other people's divorces. And their civil wars.
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I've yet to read a memoir by anyone I've known at all well that came anywhere near to the truth.
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The United States is the only civilized country in the world to class its teachers at the bottom of the social scale.
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You cannot deprive somebody of life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, because that is a right - constitutional right.
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