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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.
Gore Vidal
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Gore Vidal
Age: 86 †
Born: 1925
Born: October 3
Died: 2012
Died: July 31
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Never have varmints, only grandvarmints.
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One's neighbor is always the enemy. That is the nature of things.
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Write something, even if it's just a suicide note.
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In large Victorian houses with many rooms and heavy doors, the occupants could be mysterious and exciting to one another in a way that those who live in rackety developments can never hope to be. Not even the lust of a Lord Byron could survive the fact of Levittown.
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One is sorry one could not have taken both branches of the road. But we were not allotted multiple selves.
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The only absolute attainment is absolute abandonment.
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Between Malraux, Balzac, and Montaigne, I choose Montaigne. Montaigne will survive all the others, because the essay, meaning direct communication between the writer and his reader, will outlast the novel, by at least a thousand years.
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That peculiarly American religion, President-worship.
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All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world.
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I don't see us winning the war. We have made enemies of one billion Muslims.
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From the age of 1 to 6 there is a small percentage that is exclusively homosexual, a small percentage heterosexual and there's a wide band in the middle of people who respond to various stimuli. A little bit here, a little more there.
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