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QUOTE OF THE DAY

“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 militarized republic.”

Gore Vidal

October 3, 1925 — July 31, 2012

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9 Responses to “QUOTE OF THE DAY”

Tom Says:
August 1st, 2012 at 8:13 am
Love him. So smart and SOOOO funny! His memoir “Palimpsest” is fantastic. RIP
Colonel Panic Says:
August 1st, 2012 at 8:15 am
“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”
Tom Says:
August 1st, 2012 at 8:39 am
Loved the man. The Oscar Wilde – and more- of our time.
MrBadGuy Says:
August 1st, 2012 at 8:57 am
Gore Vidal is one of my heroes. I feel like a part of myself has gone with him. RIP.
Dave St. Pete Says:
August 1st, 2012 at 9:51 am
“Democracy is supposed to give you the feeling of choice like, Painkiller X and Painkiller Y. But they’re both just aspirin.”

“Fifty percent of people won’t vote, and fifty percent don’t read newspapers. I hope it’s the same fifty percent.”

“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”
Gore Vidal

If I had a role model he was it! As many get quote as Oscar Wilde deliver with passionate sarcasm!
Aug Says:
August 1st, 2012 at 10:30 am
a very sad day
is when we lose someone like this–
who is so unique, so smart, so articulate and so witty.

who could possibly fill his shoes?
Bob Says:
August 1st, 2012 at 2:52 pm
Always loved him!
PERVERSATILE Says:
August 1st, 2012 at 5:58 pm
Guys with brains get me hot- and Gore never failed to give me an intellectual erection!
I will praise him endlessly for cobbling together the phrase
‘The agreed upon facts”
-minted during the Kennedy administration;
it is very handy for when you have absolutely no corroborative info to support a claim/statement/mission
Sadly the essay can not be far behind.
ouryln Says:
August 1st, 2012 at 7:57 pm
I used to enjoy watching him on The Tonight Show tell risque stories about Truman Capote and Vidal Sassoon(for whom some people kept confusing him with, just because of the same name) and his feud with Norman Mailer.

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