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At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation, and prejudice.
GORE VIDAL, "Sex and the Law," Homage to Daniel Shays
In a nation that has developed to a high art advertising, the creator who refuses to advertise himself is immediately suspected of having no product worth selling.
Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.
GORE VIDAL, Sunday Times Magazine, Sep. 16, 1973
The great unmentionable evil at the center of our culture is monotheism. From a barbaric Bronze Age text known as the Old Testament, three anti-human religions have evolved -- Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. These are sky-god religions. They are, literally, patriarchal -- God is the Omnipotent Father -- hence the loathing of women for 2,000 years in those countries afflicted by the sky-god and his earthly male delegates.
GORE VIDAL, The Decline and Fall of the American Empire
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