"We should stop going around babbling about how we're the greatest democracy on earth, when we're not even a democracy. We are a sort of militarised republic."

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Source : "Gore Vidal and the Mind of the Terrorist". Interview with Ramona Koval, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Radio National, November 2001.

Gore Vidal

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“Boredom is useful to me when I notice it and think: Oh I'm bored; there must be something else I want to be doing... boredom acts as an initiator of originality by pushing me into new activities or new thoughts.”
“God always helps madmen, lovers, and drunkards.”

Source : "Heptaméron". Book by Marguerite de Navarre, Novel XXXVIII, 1558.
“How do poems grow? They grow out of your life.”
“The guiding principle of ruling elites was--and still is: When change threatens to rule, then the rules are changed.”

Source : Michael Parenti (2010). “Democracy for the Few”, p.184, Cengage Learning
“Larry Carlton is an incredibly versatile guitarist who has been a major force for guitar for many years. He is easily recognizable - all you have to do is hear him once and from that point on you'll be a fan, just like me. It gives me great pleasure to extend congratulations to Larry on his 2011 George Benson Lifetime Achievement Award. Congratulations !”
“I try to take people at face value and then beyond, taking them out of face value and out of the category of being Black, Latino, Asian, White, Jewish, Muslim or Christian or Atheist, none of that matters to me.”
“It came to me more as a whisper of suggestion than the fundamental adage that it is - if this is not biblical, I shall always believe it should be - that all of us need someone who loves us enough to forgive us despite the history.”
“I prefer being as far from the centre of celebrity as possible.”

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