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Gore Vidal
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Gore Vidal
Age: 86 †
Born: 1925
Born: October 3
Died: 2012
Died: July 31
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There was more of a flow to my output of writing in the past, certainly. Having no contemporaries left means you cannot say, Well, so-and-so will like this, which you do when you're younger. You realize there is no so-and-so anymore. You are your own so-and-so. There is a bleak side to it.
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A superficial education would be worse than none. But a full education would open every man's eyes to the nature of human existence.
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I'd like to see a revival of state legislatures, in which I am a true Jeffersonian.
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I write in the morning at a table, longhand on yellow legal pads, just like Nixon, when I’m doing fiction.
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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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Since nothing is free, to each his price.
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The United States was founded by the brightest people in the country — and we haven't seen them since.
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In a nation that has developed to a high art advertising, the creator who refuses to advertise himself is immediately suspected of having no product worth selling.
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Don't ever make the mistake with people like me thinking we are looking for heroes. There aren't any and if there were, they would be killed immediately. I'm never surprised by bad behaviour. I expect it.
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Where there is no desire or pursuits, there is no wholeness. But there are satisfying lesser states, fragments.
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The real writer learns nothing from life. He is more like an oyster or a sponge.
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Write something, even if it's just a suicide note.
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I started to read my first book at about the age of six. I started to write a book simultaneously. Not to compete, just to augment. And that's how one starts. Or I started.
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[ New York ] is a place that worships incompetence particularly if it's combined with energy and paranoid self-confidence. Only in a city like New York could Truman Capote have made it, or John Simon.
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The New York Times is the worst in that hardly anybody can write English over there. Most of it reads like slight translations from the German.
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In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you're a great writer, you must say that you are.
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The British are absolutely hung up on class, and whenever they start to really - class for the English is like sex for Americans: They start to shake all over when the subject comes up.
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Drugs. If they did not exist our governors would have invented them in order to prohibit them and so make much of the population vulnerable to arrest, imprisonment, seizure of property, and so on.
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Nothing human is finally calculable even to ourselves we are strange.
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From the age of 1 to 6 there is a small percentage that is exclusively homosexual, a small percentage heterosexual and there's a wide band in the middle of people who respond to various stimuli. A little bit here, a little more there.
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