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" It is true, as Sartre once wrote, referring to French Army atrocities in Algeria, that the real tragedy in our time is that any of us can be, interchangeably, victim or torturer. "

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" It's odd to meet a rather elderly man who says, 'I've been reading you all my life.' It makes you feel a slight chill. "

Gore Vidal

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" You hear all this whining going on, 'Where are our great writers?' The thing I might feel doleful about is: Where are the readers? "

" I cannot remember when I was not fascinated by Henry Adams. "

" In August 1961, I visited President Kennedy at Hyannis Port. The Berlin Wall was going up, and he was about to begin a huge military buildup - reluctantly, or so he said, as he puffed on a cigar liberated by a friend from Castro's Cuba. "

Gore Vidal

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" A racial or religious or tribal identity is a kind of fact. "

" Boys don't like girls around when they do boy things. "

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" Never have children, only grandchildren. "

" In writing and politicking, it's best not to think about it, just do it. "

" Overcrowding in the cities is producing a collective madness in which irrational violence flourishes because man needs more space in which to be than the modern city allows. "

" Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both die. "

" There are so many things the people who take polls never get around to asking. "

" There is only one party in the United States: the Property party... and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat. "

" Because there is no cosmic point to the life that each of us perceives on this distant bit of dust at the galaxy's edge... there is all the more reason for us to maintain in proper balance what we have here. Because there is nothing else. No thing. This is it. And quite enough, all in all. "

" It is a paradox of the acquisitive society in which we now live that although private morals are regulated by law, the entrepreneur is allowed considerable freedom to use - and abuse - the public in order to make money. "

" Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either. "

" Americans, in general, are ignorant, bigoted, and deeply unhappy with their declining incomes. "

" There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem. "

Gore Vidal

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" Fortunately, our audiences are used to a kind of boredom in the theatre, and if the writer is skillful, he will flatter them into thinking: 'Why, that's us up there, and aren't we - for all our little foibles - pretty nice guys and gals?' "

" I never wanted to be a writer. I mean, that's the last thing I wanted. "

" 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. "

" To get people to do needed things is the perennial hard task of government, not to mention of religion and philosophy. "

" Write something, even if it's just a suicide note. "

" 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. "

" TV news is not very instructive. "

Gore Vidal

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TV News

" As a schoolboy, I read most of Carl Sandburg's six-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln. "

" I've yet to read a memoir by anyone I've known at all well that came anywhere near to the truth. "

" As for my support for Obama, remember that I was brought up in Washington. It was an all-black city when I was a kid. And I've always been very pro-African-American - or whatever phrase we now use. "

" I don't even read most reviews, unless there is a potential lawsuit on view. "

" Every country should have at least one King Farouk. "