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Traitors who prevail are patriots usurpers who succeed are divine emperors.
Gore Vidal
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Gore Vidal
Age: 86 †
Born: 1925
Born: October 3
Died: 2012
Died: July 31
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When you control opinion, as corporate America controls opinion in the United States by owning the media, you can make the masses believe almost anything you want, and guide them as you please.
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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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I don't seem to be cynical to myself but how what I say goes down with others is their problem. I'm realistic.
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Age bothers everybody. I was never narcissistic about my looks, but people thought that I should be so therefore I was.
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There are certain truths so true that they are practically unbelievable.
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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'm in favor of any form of sexual relationship that gives pleasure to those involved. And I have never heard a convincing argument to the contrary.
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