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a writer must always tell the truth (unless he's a journalist)
Gore Vidal
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Gore Vidal
Age: 86 †
Born: 1925
Born: October 3
Died: 2012
Died: July 31
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Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.
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Realism has always been called cynicism.
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What is a political party but a conspiracy?
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Ideally, the writer needs no audience other than the few who understand that it is immodest and greedy to want more.
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American laws don't work, but at least the laws of physics might work.
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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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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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There are two things you never turn down: sex and appearing on television.
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Drugs. If they did not exist our governors would have invented them in order to prohibit them and so make much of the population vulnerable to arrest, imprisonment, seizure of property, and so on.
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Since no one can ever know for certain whether or not his own view of life is the correct one, it is absolutely impossible for him to know if someone else's is the wrong one.
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Precocious talents mature slowly if at all.
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Nothing human is finally calculable even to ourselves we are strange.
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People have forgotten the effects of prohibition. We have become the United Statesof Amnesia.
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On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.
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