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What is in question is a kind of book reviewing which seems to be more and more popular: the loose putting down of opinions as though they were facts, and the treating of facts as though they were opinions.

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Gore Vidal
Age: 86 †
Born: 1925
Born: October 3
Died: 2012
Died: July 31
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The important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.
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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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World events are the work of individuals whose motives are often frivolous, even casual.
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They are longing for a war with Iran. Iran is no more a harm to us than was Iraq or Afghanistan. They invented an enemy, they tell lies, lies, lies. The New York Times goes along with their lies, lies, lies. And they don't stop. When the public that's lied to 30 times a day it's apt to believe the lies, is not it?
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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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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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Sex was a great no-no for Americans, so that was obviously an attraction to the writers, and since sex is a great part of most people's lives, it's a great subject.
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Gentlemen are not supposed to tell the truth about their sex lives, nor are ladies, for that matter. Of course Clinton lied - as would anybody in his position.
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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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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'm in Hollywood right now, surrounded by nothing but the sons and grandsons of movie stars.
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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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Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild.
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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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Everybody is bisexual, and that is a fact of human nature. Some people practice both, and some practice one thing, and some people practice another thing and that is the way human beings are.
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You can only have a war with another country. You can't have a war with bad temper or a war against paranoids.
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Instead of finding alternative energy sources, we try to subjugate entire regions of the world. People do not understand that by doing this, the United States are going to absolute ruin.
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To bring into the world an unwanted human being is as antisocial an act as murder.
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In matters of faith, inconvenient evidence is always suppressed while contradictions go unnoticed.
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a writer must always tell the truth (unless he's a journalist)
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