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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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“Everything's wrong on Wikipedia.”

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2000s, What I've Learned (2008)

“Books always cost more in those cities where they are least read!”

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

“I complain about the United States not being Athens. I certainly say we are a very good Roman republic, and the lies are based upon the most advanced techniques of advertising, which is the only art form my country has ever created — the television commercial — and we sell soap and presidents in the same fashion. Once a country is habituated to liars, it takes generations to bring the truth back.”

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

“You cannot get through the density of the propaganda with which the American people, through the dreaded media, have been filled and the horrible public educational system we have for the average person. It's just grotesque.”

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On American Altruism http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=338
2000s, What I've Learned (2008), Gore Vidal's America (2009)

“There was more of a flow to my output of writing in the past, certainly. Having no contemporaries left means you cannot say, "Well, so-and-so will like this," which you do when you're younger. You realize there is no so-and-so anymore. You are your own so-and-so. There is a bleak side to it.”

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2000s, What I've Learned (2008)

“The reason no one has yet been able to come up with a good word to describe the homosexualist (sometimes known as gay, fag, queer, etc.) is because he does not exist. The human race is divided into male and female. Many human beings enjoy sexual relations with their own sex, many don't; many respond to both. This plurality is the fact of our nature and not worth fretting about.”

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

“Constantine was never a true Galilean; he merely used Christianity to extend his dominion over the world. He was a shrewd professional soldier, badly educated and not in the least interested in philosophy, though some perverse taste in him was hugely satisfied by doctrinal disputes; the mad haggling of bishops fascinated him.”

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

“By and large, serious fiction was the work of victims who portrayed victims for an audience of victims who, it was oddly assumed, would want to see their lives realistically portrayed.”

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Forrás: 1990s, Screening History (1992), Ch. 3: Lincoln, p. 78

“Lonely children often have imaginary playmates but I was never lonely; rather, I was solitary, and wanted no company at all other than books and movies, and my own imagination.”

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Forrás: 1990s, Screening History (1992), Ch. 1: The Prince and the Pauper, p. 23

“Envy is the central fact of American life.”

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"Gore Vidal," interview by Gerald Clarke (1974), The Paris Review Interviews: Writers at Work, 5th series (1981)
1970s

“Television is a great leveler. You always end up sounding like the people who ask the questions.”

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

“Those who seem to think that the Bush administration had something to do with 9-11… I can prove that they didn't. They are totally incompetent! 9-11 was a brilliantly executed strike on the United States. I can't imagine anybody… I can't even imagine… Can you imagine Cheney, mumbling around, orchestrating something like that?”

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

“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 that has worked pretty well for twenty-five hundred years. So you see I am ecumenical in my dislike for the Book. But like it or not, the Book is there; and because of it people die; and the world is in danger.”

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Appendix
1980s, At Home (1988)