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Gore Vidal

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B. TRAVEN If you do not wish to be lied to, do not ask questions. If there were no questions, there would be ...
B. TRAVEN There are many problems which could only
be solved by generations which are still to be
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TOBA BETA The root of the problem is very simply stated: if there were no sovereign independent states, if the...
NORMAN ANGELL Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
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HASIP KAPLAN There is not only no free state which would now establish it, but there is no slave state, which, if...
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ERIN KRAMER Think of people as people, not problems that need to be solved.
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CYBILL SHEPHERD Is it as meticulous and graceful as a human touch would be? No, it's not,
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DALAI LAMA There is no logical reason to believe in God. There are emotional reasons, certainly, but I cannot h...
ANDREW DAVIDSON No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.
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BERND PISCHETSRIEDER If I could live in a cabaret, I would. If I could live in 'Moulin Rouge,' I would.
RITA ORA If human life were long enough to find the ultimate theory, everything would have been solved by pre...
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GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Switches are part of the problem, and as soon as that's fixed, that part of the problem will be solv...
JANETTE FENNELL I do not know if the people of the United States would vote for superior men if they ran for office,...
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GORE VIDAL Ayn Rand is a rhetorician who writes novels I have never been able to read.
GORE VIDAL Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they're scraping the top of the barrel...
GORE VIDAL The Pentagon talks about our power to 'overkill' Russia ten times, twenty times, perhaps for...
GORE VIDAL The behaviour of President Bush on 11 September certainly gives rise to not unnatural suspicions.
GORE VIDAL In classical times, it was a capital offense to speculate upon the hour of a king's death or upo...
GORE VIDAL My memory plays me odd tricks these days [...] Age spares us nothing, old friend. Like ancient trees...
GORE VIDAL ...is not all philosophy but preparation for a serene dying?
GORE VIDAL The failure of Hellenism has been, largely, a matter of organization. Rome never tried to impose any...
GORE VIDAL But like so many others nowadays, poor Julian wanted to believe that man's life is profoundly more s...
GORE VIDAL