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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.
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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Envy is the central fact of American life.
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The fool is often oblivious of his own gaucherie.
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I like Italy. I was always at home there, it's a marvelous place to become invisible. Nobody bothers you and nobody is interested in you and I find that very good for work.
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Truman Capote has made lying an art. A minor art.
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What is there to say, finally, except that pain is bad and pleasure good, life all, death nothing.
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There are a great many people who have a vested interest in maintaining the stupidity of the American public.
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A writer represents his family history. My grandfather was a senator and my father served in the Roosevelt administration. In other words, I grew up in politics. This is why it seemed perfectly natural to take part in the battles of my time, and to participate in the writing of the history of my country.
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Since I ought to be arrogant, impressed with my social position, overwhelmed by my beauty, therefore I am. Actually I was never my own type so I completely missed my beauty all through my youth. I have no social position and I stay away from what is known as society as much as possible. But people like to re-invent you, according to cliché.
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I'm a much worse guest than I am a host, and I'm not an awfully good host either. I really like being alone.
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I suspect that one of the reasons we create fiction is to make sex exciting.
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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.
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I am glad my life is coming to an end. To think that it might last another five hundred years, now that would be terrible, in my case.
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I’ve always said, ‘I have nothing to say, only to add.’ And it’s with each addition that the writing gets done. The first draft of anything is really just a track.
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The important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.
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I don't think contemporary writers spend a lot of time reading each other. Particularly writers of the same nationality.
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Liberal comes from the Latin liberalis, which means pertaining to a free man. In politics, to be liberal is to want to extend democracy through change and reform. One can see why that word had to be erased from our political lexicon.
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The brain that doesn't feed itself, eats itself.
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I was never my own type so I completely missed my beauty all through my youth.
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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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