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Gore Vidal
Age: 86 †
Born: 1925
Born: October 3
Died: 2012
Died: July 31
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a writer must always tell the truth (unless he's a journalist)
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One of the most fascinating aspects of politician-watching is trying to determine to what extent any politician believes what he says.
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Constant work, constant writing and constant revision. The real writer learns nothing from life. He is more like an oyster or a sponge. What he takes in he takes in normally the way any person takes in experience. But it is what is done with it in his mind, if he is a real writer, that makes his art.
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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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Politics is made up of two words: Poli, which is Greek for many, and tics, which are bloodsucking insects.
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I have never been particularly impressed by the self centered musings of my fellow writers.
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I spend most of my time in California. I feel I am fueled by rage and by the political climate there. I am angry most of the time when I am there, which might be unbearable for someone else, but for me it's fuel for my writing.
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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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Everybody likes a bit of gossip to some point, as long as it's gossip with some point to it. That's why I like history. History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true.
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CO₂ emissions anywhere threaten civilisation everywhere.
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Americans are not only a less homogenous population than we were when we were 3 million ex-colonists, but we're less educated. On top of that, we have constant misinformation and manipulation by media.
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Nixon was a Southern Rim President, and so antipathetic to the old guard.
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Most lives are spent putting on and taking off masks.
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That peculiarly American religion, President-worship.
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Write something, even if it's just a suicide note.
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No one reads novels anymore. And I don't see the situation improving. People prefer video games, reality TV, and films. There are so many reasons now not to read novels.
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I came out of Capitol Hill. Well, that's just not an ordinary background for a writer of the ordinary American sort.
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Precocious talents mature slowly if at all.
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To bring into the world an unwanted human being is as antisocial an act as murder.
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The only absolute attainment is absolute abandonment.
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