I'm a born-again atheist.
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Gore Vidal
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At Home: Essays 1982-1988
Burr
Death Before Bedtime
Death in the Fifth Position
Julian
Messiah
Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace
Point to Point Navigation
Screening History
The City and the Pillar
The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000
Visit to a Small Planet and Other Television Plays
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presidents, when not outright telling lies, feel obliged to shade the truth most of the time. This is called politics; when a president lies successfully, he is called a statesman.
I have always regarded as a stroke of good fortune that I was not born or brought up in a small American town; they may be the backbone of the nation, but they are also the backbone of ignorance, bigotry, and boredom, all in vast quantities.
Although Americans justify their self-interest in moral terms, their true interest is never itself moral.