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Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.
Gore Vidal
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Gore Vidal
Age: 86 †
Born: 1925
Born: October 3
Died: 2012
Died: July 31
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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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Freud did some serious damage to American literature - a lot of writers began therapy in the 1940s, after which they all became terribly egocentric.
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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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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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American laws don't work, but at least the laws of physics might work.
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I don't see us winning the war. We have made enemies of one billion Muslims.
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You can only have a war with another country. You can't have a war with bad temper or a war against paranoids.
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I like Italy. I was always at home there, it's a marvelous place to become invisible. Nobody bothers you and nobody is interested in you and I find that very good for work.
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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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Since nothing is free, to each his price.
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What is a political party but a conspiracy?
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Then die. We must all do that. But die, as they say, game.
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As the age of television progresses the Reagans will be the rule, not the exception. To be perfect for television is all a President has to be these days.
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It is notable how little empathy is cultivated or valued in our society. I put this down to our traditional racism and obsessive sectarianism. Even so, one would think that we would be encouraged to project ourselves into the character of someone of a different race or class, if only to be able to control him. But no effort is made.
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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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Traitors who prevail are patriots usurpers who succeed are divine emperors.
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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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a writer must always tell the truth (unless he's a journalist)
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