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Great writer. Didnt agree with his politics, but he was a great writer. The chronicles of empire series on the history of america is unbelievable. It starts with the novel Burr and i believe it ends with the golden age. He was a great writer. His historica fiction novels were great. burr and lincoln really are great books.
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GB: maybe not exactly the vest palce to talk literature lolz
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Nicely contrarian, and witty. American politics needs observers like him. Sad.
"I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television."
"It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail."
"A narcissist is someone better looking than you are."
"Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically by definition be disqualified from ever doing so."
"Democracy is supposed to give you the feeling of choice like, Painkiller X and Painkiller Y. But they're both just aspirin."
"Envy is the central fact of American life."
"Every time a friend succeeds, I die a little."
"The United States was founded by the brightest people in the country — and we haven't seen them since."
"Every four years the naive half who vote are encouraged to believe that if we can elect a really nice man or woman President everything will be all right. But it won't be."
"Andy Warhol is the only genius I've ever known with an IQ of 60"
"A good deed never goes unpunished."
"All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself."
"Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates."
"Fifty percent of people won't vote, and fifty percent don't read newspapers. I hope it's the same fifty percent."
"Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences."
"The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return"
"Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn."
"The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes."
"The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so."
"Congress no longer declares war or makes budgets. So that's the end of the constitution as a working machine."
"We should stop going around babbling about how we're the greatest democracy on earth, when we're not even a democracy. We are a sort of militarised republic."
"As the age of television progresses the Reagans will be the rule, not
the exception. To be perfect for television is all a President has to
be these days."
"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."
"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 is no such thing as a homosexual or a heterosexual person. There are only homo- or heterosexual acts. Most people are a mixture of impulses if not practices."
"There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise."
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I read gore and feel cheated now!!! :( :(
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Dude was not a patriot. Hated America but liked the Jeffersonian ideal. Quick witted dude though.
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RIP Vidal Sassoon.
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Another one of my heroes, gone. :'(
Bay in mourning.
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RIP smart guy.
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The guy was cool, wasnt he bay? He was hilariously funny. And smart as hell
I can't imagine better company at a dinner party than Gore Vidal.
Did you see him in Gattaca? Loved him in that. 8)
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Rest in Peace
first Hitchens now Gore :-\
One of my favorite Vidal quotes
I regard monotheism as the greatest disaster ever to befall the human race. I see no good in Judaism, Christianity, or Islam -- good people, yes, but any religion based on a single, well, frenzied and virulent god, is not as useful to the human race as, say, Confucianism, which is not a religion but an ethical and educational system
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Rest in Peace
first Hitchens now Gore :-\
One of my favorite Vidal quotes
I regard monotheism as the greatest disaster ever to befall the human race. I see no good in Judaism, Christianity, or Islam -- good people, yes, but any religion based on a single, well, frenzied and virulent god, is not as useful to the human race as, say, Confucianism, which is not a religion but an ethical and educational system
Confucianism didn't exactly stop the Chinese from battling it out amongst themselves over the centuries with tens of millions of casualties ::)
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Worst news I have heard in a long time. I got the chance to speak with him two years ago at least. Definitely one of my favorite writers.
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Damn. I always meant to read his stuff and now it's too late. :(
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The essay he wrote about William Buckley Jr. Most astonishingly, combatively entertaining piece ever. Without assigning a single word of profanity towards his opponent, Vidal nevertheless managed to tear a huge asshole out of him. Buckley moved immediately to sue not only Vidal but Esquire magazine too. When the essay was re-published, almost forty years later, Buckley sued again!
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Damn. I always meant to read his stuff and now it's too late. :(
Start with Burr and then read the entire American Chronicle Series.
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Confucianism didn't exactly stop the Chinese from battling it out amongst themselves over the centuries with tens of millions of casualties ::)
Neither did Buddhism
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Gore Vidal was the master of Pwning before the internet. Destroying Norman Mailer here.
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Vidal Destroying Ronald Reagan
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Were losing so many good ones. We still have Larry King, Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter.. Oh yeah..