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It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true.
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 look into my own black heart.
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Freud did some serious damage to American literature - a lot of writers began therapy in the 1940s, after which they all became terribly egocentric.
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Democracy is something America has never really practiced. Because the Founding Fathers hated two things: monarchy and democracy. They wanted a republic, a replica of the Roman or Venetian republics. They didn't even like the etymology of the word democracy.
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I'm devoted to promiscuity, and always have been. I believe the more you do, the better it is for you. I'm a great health nut, and sex is, I think, absolutely marvelous for the whole system tones you up.
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Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.
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In fact, life itself is a contradiction if only because birth is the direct cause, in every single case, of death
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Commercialism is doing well that which should not be done at all.
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Every time a friend succeeds, I die a little.
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Obviously I'm in favor of protecting the rights of everybody: gay, black, women, what have you, American Indians.
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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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Politics is made up of two words: Poli, which is Greek for many, and tics, which are bloodsucking insects.
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