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" 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. "

Gore Vidal

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Gore Vidal

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" I think there is an instinct out there to rid us of our masters. "

" Remember, I'm West Point, where I was born. My father went there. "

" 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. "

" 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?' "

" It is very difficult for a writer of my generation, if he is honest, to pretend indifference to the work of Somerset Maugham. He was always so entirely there. "

" For every Scott Fitzgerald concerned with the precise word and the selection of relevant incident, there are a hundred American writers, many well-regarded, who appear to believe that one word is just as good as another and that everything which occurs to them is worth putting down. "

" Both Marx and Christ agree that in this life, a right action is consideration for the welfare of others. "

" On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died. "

" At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation and prejudice. "

" I know a lot of the Annapolis breed. "

" Most of our writers tend to be recorders. "

" While campaigning, I got to know many high-school teachers, and let me say that the good ones are the unsung heroes of our society, and the bad ones are the gravediggers. "

Gore Vidal

Society

Teachers

" I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television. "

" It's always best to stay out of other people's divorces. And their civil wars. "

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

" I'm a fervent foe of water pollution, whether it is our own Hudson River or Philadelphia's tap water. "

" Some of my father's fellow West Pointers once asked him why I turned out so well, his secret in raising me. And he said, 'I never gave him any advice, and he never asked for any.' We agreed on nothing, but we never quarreled once. "

" After the French Revolution, the world money power shifted from Paris to London. For three generations, the British maintained an old-fashioned colonial empire, as well as a modern empire based on London's primacy in the money markets. "

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

" Temperamentally, I am suspicious of belonging to anything. When I ran for office, I debated seriously whether or not to run as an independent because I was not eager to be saddled with the Democratic Party, because any party label is committing. "

" 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. "

" Since we have literally targeted our enemies, the Pentagon assumes that, sooner or later, rogues will take out our cities, presumably from spaceships. "