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Gore Vidal
Age: 86 †
Born: 1925
Born: October 3
Died: 2012
Died: July 31
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The brain that doesn't feed itself, eats itself.
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For true happiness, it is not enough to be successful oneself . . . one's friends must fail.
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Andy Warhol is the only genius I've ever known with an IQ of 60.
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The whole point to American journalism is what ought to be true is true.
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Who gives a damn about being remembered? That's really for amateurs.
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I might become an ascetic, live in India. A little rice is about the best I can do now.
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The family in the West is finished... its origin was economic, not biological... the odd group of strangers that make up every family no longer have any reason to live together, to suffer from one another's jagged edges.
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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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I’m not sentimental about anything. Life flows by, and you flow with it or you don’t. Move on and move out.
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Never have children, only grandchildren.
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All Americans born between 1890 and 1945 wanted to be movie stars.
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