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Every time a friend succeeds, I die a little.
Gore Vidal
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Gore Vidal
Age: 86 †
Born: 1925
Born: October 3
Died: 2012
Died: July 31
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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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Never offend an enemy in a small way.
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The brain that doesn't feed itself, eats itself.
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I'm in favor of sexual encounters.
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Come to me and show me a small cancer and I'll tell you you've got a small cancer that should be cut out. That's realism but in America it's called cynicism.
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Most lives are spent putting on and taking off masks.
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The first TV babies are now writing with a TV mind that has no attention span at all.
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Traitors who prevail are patriots usurpers who succeed are divine emperors.
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Everybody has two legs, two lobes to the brain which is why we tend to be interested in symmetry, always balancing things.
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I have never been particularly impressed by the self centered musings of my fellow writers.
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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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You see we adults have learned how to disguise our terrible characters but a child... well, it's like a grotesque drawing of us. They should be neither seen nor heard. And no one must make another one.
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I suppose that one is always tempted to challenge those who think that they and they alone possess the truth or the way or the key to the mystery.
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Ultimately, totalitarianism is the only sort of politics that can truly serve the sky-god's purpose. Any movement of a liberal nature endangers his authority and that of his delegates on earth. One God, one King, one Pope, one master in the factory, one father-leader in the family at home.
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Write something, even if it's just a suicide note.
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We affect one another quite enough merely by existing. Whenever the stars cross, or is it comets? fragments pass briefly from one orbit to another. On rare occasions there is total collision, but most often the two simply continue without incident, neither losing more than a particle to the other, in passing.
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