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Gore Vidal
Age: 86 †
Born: 1925
Born: October 3
Died: 2012
Died: July 31
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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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Despite the warnings of other times, the impetuous and the confident continue their indiscriminate cultivation of weeds at the expense of occasional flowers.
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I'm in favor of any form of sexual relationship that gives pleasure to those involved. And I have never heard a convincing argument to the contrary.
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Rome ... at its most decadent, had never thought of hiring an actor to go through the motions of being an emperor while the Praetorian Guard ruled.
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Never have varmints, only grandvarmints.
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Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild.
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Ideally, the writer needs no audience other than the few who understand that it is immodest and greedy to want more.
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The word heterosexual is an adjective, the word homosexual is an adjective. They describe an activity. Of course there's a homosexual activity of course there's a heterosexual activity. But there's no homosexual person. There's no heterosexual person. Everybody is everything.
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The problem with most Americans is that they don't like any question that takes more than ten seconds to answer.
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That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president.
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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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Then die. We must all do that. But die, as they say, game.
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What begins with comedy ends with comedy... in my short view of the matter.
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To justify and extol human greed and egotism is to my mind not only immoral, but evil.
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The word 'radical' derives from the Latin word for root. Therefore, if you want to get to the root of anything you must be radical. It is no accident that the word has now been totally demonized.
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The world came so close to self-destruction during my lifetime. I was serving in the American Army, in the Pacific, at the time they bombed Hiroshima and then Nagasaki, and I felt there something like a foretaste of the end of the world.
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I said, well, it's a very primitive country, the United States, and it's full of superstitions, which come out of a very fundamental religious bias, which is primitive Christianity.
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Miss Rand now tells us that what we have thought was right is really wrong. The lesson should have read: One for one and none for all.
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I was brought up to believe that what is out-of-doors should stay there and not be encouraged in any way.
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To a born-again atheist like myself, it is clear that each of us has multiple selves, talents, perceptions. But to the Roman Catholic, unity is all.
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