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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.
Gore Vidal
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Gore Vidal
Age: 86 †
Born: 1925
Born: October 3
Died: 2012
Died: July 31
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The New York Times is the worst in that hardly anybody can write English over there. Most of it reads like slight translations from the German.
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When anyone says to me, 'Can you keep a secret?' I say, 'Why should I, if you can't?'
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In large Victorian houses with many rooms and heavy doors, the occupants could be mysterious and exciting to one another in a way that those who live in rackety developments can never hope to be. Not even the lust of a Lord Byron could survive the fact of Levittown.
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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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To justify and extol human greed and egotism is to my mind not only immoral, but evil.
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A superficial education would be worse than none. But a full education would open every man's eyes to the nature of human existence.
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Truman Capote has made lying an art. A minor art.
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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 whole point to American journalism is what ought to be true is true. Since I ought to be arrogant, impressed with my social position, overwhelmed by my beauty, therefore I am.
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Constant work, constant writing and constant revision. The real writer learns nothing from life. He is more like an oyster or a sponge. What he takes in he takes in normally the way any person takes in experience. But it is what is done with it in his mind, if he is a real writer, that makes his art.
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In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you're a great writer, you must say that you are.
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The word heterosexual is an adjective, the word homosexual is an adjective. They describe an activity. Of course there's a homosexual activity of course there's a heterosexual activity. But there's no homosexual person. There's no heterosexual person. Everybody is everything.
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As one gets older, litigation replaces sex.
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I don't see us winning the war. We have made enemies of one billion Muslims.
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Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.
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First coffee, then a bowel movement. Then the Muse joins me.
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If you want to rise in politics in the United States, there is one subject you must stay away from, and that is politics.
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In writing and politicking, it's best not to think about it, just do it.
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Fifty percent of people won't vote, and fifty percent don't read newspapers. I hope it's the same fifty percent.
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