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· <blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/author/7441/">Quotes by <em>Vidal, Gore</em></a></blockquote><br> From <a href="http://quotationsbook.com">Quotations Book</a> ·

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"Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates."

Vidal, Gore · Democracy · 1 fans >>
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"Democracy is supposed to give you the feeling of choice, like Painkiller X and Painkiller Y. But they're both just aspirin."

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"Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies."

Vidal, Gore · Envy · 6 fans >>
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"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."

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"I find in most novels no imagination at all. They seem to think the highest form of the novel is to write about marriage, because that's the most important thing there is for middle-class people."

Vidal, Gore · Fiction · 2 fans >>
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"Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith."

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

Vidal, Gore · America · 3 fans >>
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"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"

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"The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western World. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity -- much less dissent."

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"There is hardly an American male of my generation who has not at one time or another tried to master the victory cry of the great ape as it issued from the androgynous chest of Johnny Weissmuller, to the accompaniment of thousands of arms and legs snapping during attempts to swing from tree to tree in the backyards of the Republic."

Vidal, Gore · Men · 1 fans >>
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