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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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I don't think contemporary writers spend a lot of time reading each other. Particularly writers of the same nationality.
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I'd still like to be the President, of course, and I think the best way to do that would be to raise an army and seize the Capital. This strikes me as true democracy.
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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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The fool is often oblivious of his own gaucherie.
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Southerners make good novelists: they have so many stories because they have so much family.
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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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For the average American, freedom of speech is simply the freedom to repeat what everyone else is saying and no more.
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I have begun writing what I have said I'd never write, a memoir (I am not my own subject, I used to say with icy superiority).
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Celebrities are invariably celebrity-mad, just as liars always believe liars.
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Everything's wrong on Wikipedia.
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Most lives are spent putting on and taking off masks.
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There is no such thing as a true account of anything.
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We must declare ourselves, become known allow the world to discover this subterranean life of ours which connects kings and farm boys, artists and clerks. Let them see that the important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.
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Never have children, only grandchildren.
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The word 'radical' derives from the Latin word for root. Therefore, if you want to get to the root of anything you must be radical. It is no accident that the word has now been totally demonized.
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Our rulers for more than half a century have made sure that we are never to be told the truth about anything that our government has done to other people, not to mention our own.
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Every time a friend succeeds, I die a little.
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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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In fact, life itself is a contradiction if only because birth is the direct cause, in every single case, of death
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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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