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The first TV babies are now writing with a TV mind that has no attention span at all.
Gore Vidal
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Gore Vidal
Age: 86 †
Born: 1925
Born: October 3
Died: 2012
Died: July 31
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All I want is that Americans still be able to read the alphabet in a hundred years. I am not very ambitious.
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The Puritans left England for America not because they couldn't be Puritans in their mother country, but because they were not allowed to force others to become Puritans in the New World, of course, they could and did.
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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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