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Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either.
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 a critic of the rulers of the United States, you are either demonized, or you are trivialized by the press, and they do a very good job of making you into a non-person or a ridiculous person.
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True wisdom is to know the extent of what you don't know quite as well as you know what you do know.
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I find in most novels no imagination at all. They seem to think the highest form of the novel is to write about marriage, because that's the most important thing there is for middle-class people.
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I'm in Hollywood right now, surrounded by nothing but the sons and grandsons of movie stars.
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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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Fifty percent of people won't vote, and fifty percent don't read newspapers. I hope it's the same fifty percent.
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The unfed mind devours itself.
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My father had a deep and lifelong contempt for politicians in general (They tell lies, he used to say with wonder, even when they don't have to).
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