American - Novelist | October 3, 1925 - July 31, 2012
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
Gore Vidal
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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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Fifty percent of people won't vote, and fifty percent don't read newspapers. I hope it's the same fifty percent.
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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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I'm all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.
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'The Turner Diaries' is a racist daydream by a former physics teacher writing under the pseudonym Andrew Macdonald.
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As a schoolboy, I read most of Carl Sandburg's six-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln.
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Some have deplored Lincoln's indifference to Christianity. But it was not religion, it was religiosity that put him off.
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During the late '50s, I had worked on the script of Ben-Hur in an office next to that of the producer Sam Zimbalist.
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History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true.
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Corporations must pay tax.
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Obama just came swiftly out of nowhere, which was a relief to those of us who care about the Republic, and at first he seemed a very good thing.
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