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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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If you're not part of that club, as I certainly am not, you are not presidential.
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People are worse educated than they used to be. Certainly they are not very interested in reading books, as opposed to watching television, movies. They are used to getting things through the eye and the ear. In a small way, literature goes on being written, but few people like it. Once it's bureaucratized by the schoolteachers, the game's up.
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The only absolute attainment is absolute abandonment.
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What we are is seldom what we want to be, while what we want to be is either denied us or changes with the seasons.
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I started to read my first book at about the age of six. I started to write a book simultaneously. Not to compete, just to augment. And that's how one starts. Or I started.
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Age bothers everybody. I was never narcissistic about my looks, but people thought that I should be so therefore I was.
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For the average American, freedom of speech is simply the freedom to repeat what everyone else is saying and no more.
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Write something, even if it's just a suicide note.
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Before the cards that one is dealt by life are the cards that fate has dealt: one's family.
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I might become an ascetic, live in India. A little rice is about the best I can do now.
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All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world.
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