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Gore Vidal föddes den 31 maart 1948 - US VP (45)
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 That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president.

 The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.

 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.

 The greatest pleasure when I started making money was not buying cars or yachts but finding myself able to have as many freshly typed drafts as possible.

 The idea of a good society is something you do not need a religion and eternal punishment to buttress; you need a religion if you are terrified of death

 The last best hope of 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.

 The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.

 The ownership of this country has usually been pretty shrewd. They knew what they wanted. They don't want to pay taxes, certainly. They don't want people blowing them up in the night like 9/11. And if there ever was great cause for impeachment it would be over 9/11. Never been a case of negligence like that.

 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.

 There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.

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

 There's a lot to be said for being nouveau riche, and the Reagans mean to say it all.

 These people [Bush Administration] are for the most part rip-off artists. Notice that they're all gas and oil men from Cheney, to the two Bushes; I think Rumsfeld also.

 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.

 This is not at all bad, except as prose.


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