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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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" Like most readers, I tend to skip the acknowledgements at the beginnings of books: the 'To-My-Wife-Without-Whose-Invaluable-Assistance' kind of thing. "

Gore Vidal

Beginnings

Kind

" Primarily, I am a prose writer with axes to grind, and the theatre is a good place to do the grinding in. I prefer comedy to 'serious' drama because I believe one can get the ax sharper on the comedic stone. "

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

" Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half. "

" Walter Lippmann suggests that the United States behaves like a society which thinks it is complete with no more to accomplish; that, for better or worse, we are what we are, and the only danger to our comfort is external. "

" To prevent the theft of 'Ben-Hur's sets, guards were prowling the back lot long after production had been shut down. "

" On September 5, 1774, forty-five of the weightiest colonial men formed the First Continental Congress at Philadelphia. "

" The United States is the only civilized country in the world to class its teachers at the bottom of the social scale. "

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

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

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

Gore Vidal

About

Does

" To a man, ornithologists are tall, slender, and bearded so that they can stand motionless for hours, imitating kindly trees, as they watch for birds. "

" We're not a democracy. "

Gore Vidal

Democracy

" The behaviour of President Bush on 11 September certainly gives rise to not unnatural suspicions. "

" I think I have a normal threshold of anger, but it's true that I am, by nature, belligerent. "

" There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise. "

" As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests. "

" 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. "

" I am only at home in the present. "

Gore Vidal

Present

Only

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

" It is essential to naturalist doctrine that literature, to be good, must, finally, be the author's experience worked out literally. "

" Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith. "

" Fifty percent of people won't vote, and fifty percent don't read newspapers. I hope it's the same fifty percent. "

" Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age. "

" A friend was surprised to hear me say that there was not one moment of my past that I would like to relive. "

Gore Vidal

Say

Moment

" 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. "

" Most of our writers tend to be recorders. "

" We are the United States of Amnesia, which is encouraged by a media that has no desire to tell us the truth about anything, serving their corporate masters who have other plans to dominate us. "

" I'm always an optimist! "

Gore Vidal

Optimist

Always

" Anybody who is stupid enough to want to be remembered deserves to be forgotten right now. "