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By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he's been bought ten times over.
Gore Vidal
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Gore Vidal
Age: 86 †
Born: 1925
Born: October 3
Died: 2012
Died: July 31
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Half the American population no longer reads newspapers: plainly, they are the clever half.
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I'm in favor of sexual encounters.
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Next to I win, I told you so are the sweetest words.
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Maybe there is no good God. But there is definitely a devil, and his predominant passion is the religion of Protestant fundamentalists. I believe my country is beginning to resemble a theocracy. Using television, the evangelists raise appalling amounts of money which they then invest in the election of mentally disabled obscurantists.
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