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Gore Vidal , születési nevén Eugene Luther Vidal, amerikai író és politikus, időnként színész. Néha írói álneveket használt, ezek az Edgar Box, Cameron Kay és Catherine Everard. Az Amerikai Egyesült Államokban, a New York állambéli West Pointban született. 1946-tól publikált, elsősorban történelmi témájú műveket. 1970-től 2004-ig felváltva az olaszországi Ravellóban és Hollywoodban lakott élettársával, akinek halála után Los Angelesbe költözött.

Családja a híres politikusokat adó Kennedy-klán rokona. Nagyapja, Thomas Pryor Gore Oklahoma szenátora volt. Szintén rokona – bár távolabbi – az egykori demokrata párti alelnök és elnökjelölt, Al Gore. Vidal magát a „Gore-dinasztia fekete bárányának” nevezte, ami radikális kritikája a USA politikai életének. Az amerikai expanzív erőpolitika rendíthetetlen ellenzője volt. George W. Busht az „ország legostobább emberének” nevezte már 2000-ben, Barack Obama pedig szerinte „túlképzett” a feladathoz, aki „nem ismeri fel, mennyire sötét, tudatlan a közönsége”. Amerikát intellektuális réteg nélküli, gyors ütemben rothadó társadalomként jellemezte. Wikipedia  

✵ 3. október 1925 – 31. július 2012
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“We must always remember that the police are recruited from the criminal classes.”

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As quoted by Dick Cavett, in "The Swimmers" http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/03/books/review/Cavett-t.html?_r=1&pagewanted=print&oref=slogin, The New York Times (3 June 2007)
2000s

“To speak today of a famous novelist is like speaking of a famous cabinetmaker or speedboat designer. Adjective is inappropriate to noun.”

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Forrás: 1990s, Screening History (1992), Ch. 1: The Prince and the Pauper, pp.2-3

“Post-9/11, the American media were filled with pre-emptory denunciations of unpatriotic 'conspiracy theorists', who not only are always with us but are usually easy for the media to discredit since it is an article of faith that there are no conspiracies in American life.”

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"The Enemy Within" https://www.ratical.org/ratville/CAH/EnemyWithin.html, The Observer (27 October 2002)
2000s

“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.”

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"Gods and Greens" (1989)
1990s, A View from the Diner's Club (1991)

“People in my situation get to read about themselves whether they want to or not. It's generally wrong. Or oversimplified — which is sometimes useful.”

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2000s, What I've Learned (2008)

“Religions are manipulated in order to serve those who govern society and not the other way around.”

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"Sex Is Politics" (1979)
1980s, The Second American Revolution (1983)

“Now we have a totalitarian government. And the totalitarian government wants to watch everybody, total surveillance of everyone. They listen to the telephone conversations, they look at your credit cards, they look where you travel. We are totally policed. This is contrary to everything in our Constitution.”

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2010s, "Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia" (2013)

“Precocious talents mature slowly if at all.”

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"F. Scott Fitzgerald's Case" (1980)
1980s, The Second American Revolution (1983)

“In any case, rather like priests who have forgotten the meaning of the prayers they chant, we shall go on for quite a long time talking of books and writing books, pretending all the while not to notice that the church is empty and the parishioners have gone elsewhere to attend other gods, perhaps in silence or with new words.”

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"French Letters: Theories of the New Novel" (1967)
1970s, Homage to Daniel Shays : Collected Essays (1972), Matters of Fact and Fiction : Essays 1973 - 1976 (1978)

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

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"Gods and Greens" (1989)
1990s, A View from the Diner's Club (1991)

“There is no terror equal that of the ignorant in a strange place.”

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Forrás: 1960s, Julian (1964), Chapter 16

“We're supposed to procreate and society, god knows, is ferocious on the subject. Heterosexuality is considered such a great and natural good that you have to execute people and put them in prison if they don't practice this glorious act.”

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"American psyche" http://arts.independent.co.uk/books/features/article171192.ece, extract from interview with Anthony Clare on BBC Radio 4, "In the Psychiatrist's Chair"; published in The Independent (8 October 2000).
2000s

“Don’t ever make the mistake with people like me thinking we are looking for heroes. There aren’t any and if there were, they would be killed immediately. I’m never surprised by bad behaviour. I expect it.”

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The Times Online http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/the_way_we_live/article6854221.ece, (30 September 2009)
2000s

“…American society, literary or lay, tends to be humorless. What other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke?”

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"Edmund Wilson: This Critic and This Gin and These Shoes"
1990s, United States - Essays 1952-1992 (1992)

“The hatred Americans have for their own government is pathological, if understandable. At one level it is simply thwarted greed: since our religion is making a buck, giving a part of that buck to any government is an act against nature.”

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"The State of the Union", Esquire magazine, (May 1975)
1970s

“We are all in the habit of censuring the great, as if we were popular playwrights, when in fact ordinary folk are quite as devious and as willful and as desperate to survive (if not prevail) as are thee great; particularly philosophers.”

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Forrás: 1960s, Julian (1964), Chapter 11

“His fault was a common one. He simply did not know what he was; he saw no flaw in himself, a not unusual blindness and preferable, on the whole, to being unable to find any virtue in oneself.”

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Forrás: 1960s, Julian (1964), Chapter 6

“I can understand companionship. I can understand bought sex in the afternoon, but I cannot understand the love affair.”

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Quoted in profile by Martin Amis, "Mr. Vidal: Unpatriotic Gore" (1977) in The Moronic Inferno (1987)
1970s

“Modern Christianity is a encyclopedia of traditional superstition.”

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Forrás: 1960s, Julian (1964), Chapter 5

“Basler finds my Lincoln the 'phoniest historical novel I have ever had the pleasure of reading.'… Also, 'more than half the book could never have happened as told.' Unfortunately, he doesn't say which half. If I knew, we could then cut it free from the phony half and publish the result as Basler's Vidal's Lincoln.”

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"Lincoln and the Priests of Academe"
1990s, United States - Essays 1952-1992 (1992)

“I have begun writing what I have said I'd never write, a memoir ("I am not my own subject," I used to say with icy superiority).”

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Preface http://www.threepennyreview.com/samples/vidal_su95.html
1990s, The City and the Pillar and Seven Early Stories (1995)

“For reasons that I leave to a higher psychiatry, Jr. wanted a war in Iraq…. Jr. is really pretty vague, you know. He just wanted to go… "Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! We gotta stand tall, ya know? We can't cut and run, yeah, ya know what I mean." We've had bad presidents in the past, but we've never had a G-- D--d fool!”

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2010s, "Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia" (2013)

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

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"Sex and the Law," Partisan Review (Summer 1965)
1970s, Homage to Daniel Shays : Collected Essays (1972)

“…for ferocity there is nothing on Earth equal a Christian bishop hunting "heresy", as they call any opinion contrary to their own.”

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Forrás: 1960s, Julian (1964), Chapter 1, Priscus to Libanius, Athens March 380

“Constantinople has no past; only a noisy present and a splendid future, if the auguries are to be believed.”

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Forrás: 1960s, Julian (1964), Chapter 2

“The rhetoric of hate is often most effective when couched in the idiom of love.”

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Forrás: 1960s, Julian (1964), Chapter 6

“The last best hope on earth, two trillion dollars in debt, is spinning out of control, and all we can do is stare at a flickering cathode-ray tube as Ollie "answers" questions on TV while the press, resolutely irrelevant as ever, asks politicians if they have committed adultery. From V-J Day 1945 to this has been, my fellow countrymen, a perfect nightmare.”

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"Ollie" (1987) [Ollie = Oliver North ]
1980s, At Home (1988)

“I say, they don't have to conspire, because they all think alike. The president of General Motors and the president of Chase Manhattan Bank really are not going to disagree much on anything, nor would the editor of the New York Times disagree with them. They all tend to think quite alike, otherwise they would not be in those jobs.”

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After being asked "Does someone as sophisticated as you are submit yourself to the conspiracy theory of history?""
1980s, At The David Susskind Show (1980)

“My father had a deep and lifelong contempt for politicians in general ("They tell lies," he used to say with wonder, "even when they don't have to").”

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"On Flying" (1985)
1980s, At Home (1988)

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

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Preface to Reflections Upon a Sinking Ship http://books.google.com/books?id=LXFbAAAAMAAJ&q="There+is+something+about+a+bureaucrat+that+does+not+like+a+poem" (1969)
Preface to Sex, Death, and Money http://books.google.com/books?id=54JBAAAAIAAJ&q="There+is+something+about+a+bureaucrat+that+does+not+like+a+poem" (1969)
1960s