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The important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.
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 are certain truths so true that they are practically unbelievable.
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I was brought up to believe that what is out-of-doors should stay there and not be encouraged in any way.
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It never occurred to any Enlightenment figure in the eighteenth century that law was not preferable to man.
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Until the rise of American advertising, it never occurred to anyone anywhere in the world that the teenager was a captive in a hostile world of adults.
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Truman Capote has made lying an art. A minor art.
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Obviously I'm in favor of protecting the rights of everybody: gay, black, women, what have you, American Indians.
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Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.
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It is reasonable to assume that, by and large, what is not read now will not be read, ever. It is also reasonable to assume that practically nothing that is read now will be read later.
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True wisdom is to know the extent of what you don't know quite as well as you know what you do know.
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Apparently, 'conspiracy stuff' is now shorthand for unspeakable truth.
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Envy is the central fact of American life.
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People are worse educated than they used to be. Certainly they are not very interested in reading books, as opposed to watching television, movies. They are used to getting things through the eye and the ear. In a small way, literature goes on being written, but few people like it. Once it's bureaucratized by the schoolteachers, the game's up.
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If satire is to be effective, the audience must be aware of the thing satirized.
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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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Although the notion of one god may give comfort to those in need of a daddy, it reminds the rest of us that the totalitarian society is grounded upon the concept of God the father. One paternal god, one paternal leader. Authority is absolute.
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Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.
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Persuading the people to vote against their own best interests has been the awesome genius of the American political elite from the beginning.
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There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.
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I'm in favor of sexual encounters.
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