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Gore Vidal Biography

Eugene Luther Gore Vidal (/ˌɡɔːr vɪˈdɑːl/ born Eugene Louis Vidal; October 3, 1925 – July 31, 2012) was an American writer and public intellectual known for his patrician manner, epigrammatic wit, and polished style of writing.

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They are longing for a war with Iran. Iran is no more a harm to us than was Iraq or Afghanistan. They invented an enemy, they tell lies, lies, lies. The New York Times goes along with their lies, lies, lies. And they don't stop. When the public that's lied to 30 times a day it's apt to believe the lies, is not it?

Apt, Iran, Lying, New York, War

I think since Watergate people are interested in what the past of this country was really like.

Country, Interested, Past, People, Thinking, Watergate

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.

Believe, Birthday, Exercise, Fact, Matter, Spirit

Whether you have an abortion, what you put in your own body, with whom you have sex - these are not the affairs of the state. A government does not exist to control the citizens. When it does, it is a tyranny, and must be fought. The tree of liberty, Jefferson warned us, must be refreshed with the blood of tyrants and patriots.

Blood, Government, Patriots, Sex, Tyranny

Although drugs are immoral and must be kept from the young, thousands of schools pressure parents to give the drug Ritalin to any lively child who may, sensibly, show signs of boredom in his classroom. Ritalin renders the child docile if not comatose. Side effects? "Stunted growth, facial tics, agitation and aggression, insomnia, appetite loss, headaches, stomach pains and seizures. " Marijuana would be far less harmful.

Children, Give, Pain, Pains, School, Young

Many human beings enjoy sexual relations with their own sex; many don't; many respond to both. This plurality is part of our nature and not worth fretting about.

Beings, Enjoy, Plurality, Relation, Sex

One's neighbor is always the enemy. That is the nature of things.

Enemy, Nature, Neighbor, Things

It is difficult to find a reputable American historian who will acknowledge the crude fact that a Franklin Roosevelt, say, wanted to be President merely to wield power, to be famed and to be feared. To learn this simple fact one must wade through a sea of evasions: history as sociology, leaders as teachers, bland benevolence as a motive force, when, finally, power is an end to itself, and the instinctive urge to prevail the most important single human trait, the necessary force without which no city was built, no city destroyed.

Cities, Franklin, Simple, Teacher, Teachers, Trait

Everybody has two legs, two lobes to the brain which is why we tend to be interested in symmetry, always balancing things.

Balancing, Brain, Interested, Legs, Symmetry, Two

I don't think contemporary writers spend a lot of time reading each other. Particularly writers of the same nationality.

Contemporary, Reading, Same, Thinking, Time

In matters of faith, inconvenient evidence is always suppressed while contradictions go unnoticed.

Contradiction, Contradictions, Evidence, Matter, Suppressed

It is curious how often one prefers his enemies to his friends.

Curious, Enemies, Enemy, Friends, Prefers

The great unmentionable evil at the center of our culture is monotheism. From a barbaric Bronze Age text known as the Old Testament, three anti-human religions have evolved -- Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. These are sky-god religions. They are, literally, patriarchal -- God is the Omnipotent Father -- hence the loathing of women for 2,000 years in those countries afflicted by the sky-god and his earthly male delegates.

2000, Country, Father, God, Old, Religions

Lonely children often have imaginary playmates but I was never lonely; rather, I was solitary, and wanted no company at all other than books and movies, and my own imagination.

Book, Children, Imaginary, Imagination, Lonely, Movies

I have been on the cover of Time magazine. My father was on the cover of Time, and my grandfather was on the cover of Time.

Father, Grandfather, Magazines, Time, Time Magazine

We are given our place in time as we are given our eyes: weak, strong, clear, squinting, the thing is not ours to choose. Well, this has been a squinting, walleyed time to be born in.

Choose, Eye, Eyes, Squinting, Strong, Weak

Then die. We must all do that. But die, as they say, game.

Die, Dies, Game, Games, Say

Style. . . is knowing who you are.

Knowing, Knowing Who You Are, Style

Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they're scraping the top of the barrel.

Barrel, Desperately, Funny, Literature, Television

One is sorry one could not have taken both branches of the road. But we were not allotted multiple selves.

Branches, Self, Selves, Sorry, Taken

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