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Andy Warhol is the only genius I've ever known with an IQ of 60.
Gore Vidal
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Gore Vidal
Age: 86 †
Born: 1925
Born: October 3
Died: 2012
Died: July 31
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I came out of Capitol Hill. Well, that's just not an ordinary background for a writer of the ordinary American sort.
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We were to be forever at war with somebody. We were going to fight communism everywhere on earth even if it didn't threaten us. It was a holy war, just as we've made one on terrorism and Islam, equally stupid and equally irrelevant.
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