Gore Vidal dead at 86
Influential leftist American novelist and thinker dies due to complications from pneumonia.
http://edition.cnn.com/2012/08/01/sh...html?hpt=hp_t3
Some random Gore Vidal quotes:
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Originally Posted by Gore Vidal
A good deed never goes unpunished.
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.
Fifty percent of people won't vote, and fifty percent don't read newspapers. I hope it's the same fifty percent.
Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.
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.
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.
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.
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.
What other culture could have produced someone like Hemmingway and not seen the joke?
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Whether you appreciated him or not he was an interesting and brave dude.
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Last edited by Red Slinger; 08-01-2012 at 01:23 AM.
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