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Democracy is supposed to give you the feeling of choice, like Painkiller X and Painkiller Y. But they're both just aspirin.

Democracy is supposed to give you the feeling of choice, like Painkiller X and Painkiller Y. But they're both just aspirin.

Gore Vidal
Pain, Giving, Choices
1982 Interview in the Observer, 7 Feb.

Who gives a damn about being remembered? That's really for amateurs.

Gore Vidal
Giving, Damn, Remembered

The behaviour of President Bush on 11 September certainly gives rise to not unnatural suspicions.

Gore Vidal
Giving, President, Behaviour
"Gore Vidal claims 'Bush junta' complicit in 9/11" by Sunder Katwala, www.theguardian.com. October 26, 2002.

Although the notion of one god may give comfort to those in need of a daddy, it reminds the rest of us that the totalitarian society is grounded upon the concept of God the father. One paternal god, one paternal leader. Authority is absolute.

Gore Vidal
Father, Daddy, Giving
Gore Vidal (2004). “Imperial America: Reflections on the United States of Amnesia”, p.82, CLAIRVIEW BOOKS

I'm in favor of any form of sexual relationship that gives pleasure to those involved. And I have never heard a convincing argument to the contrary.

Gore Vidal
Giving, Favors, Argument

You can't be both a writer and a politician, at least not a good writer. A writer must always tell the truth as he sees it. And the politician must never give the game away.

Gore Vidal
Games, Giving, Telling The Truth
"Fresh Air Remembers Writer And Critic Gore Vidal". www.npr.org. August 2, 2012.

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.

Gore Vidal
Government, Giving, Hatred
"The State of the Union". Esquire Magazine, May 1975.

Sex is. There is nothing more to be done about it. Sex builds no roads, writes no novels and sex certainly gives no meaning to anything in life but itself.

Gore Vidal
Sex, Writing, Giving
Gore Vidal (1968). “Sex, Death, and Money”

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