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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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From the age of 1 to 6 there is a small percentage that is exclusively homosexual, a small percentage heterosexual and there's a wide band in the middle of people who respond to various stimuli. A little bit here, a little more there.
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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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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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It is astonishing to think that millions of people in my time—now, too, I suppose—actually thought that at a given moment in history two human beings had evolved to a higher state than that of all the gods that ever were or ever will be. This is titanism, as the Greeks would say. This is madness.
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Rome ... at its most decadent, had never thought of hiring an actor to go through the motions of being an emperor while the Praetorian Guard ruled.
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[ New York ] is a place that worships incompetence particularly if it's combined with energy and paranoid self-confidence. Only in a city like New York could Truman Capote have made it, or John Simon.
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I came out of Capitol Hill. Well, that's just not an ordinary background for a writer of the ordinary American sort.
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By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he's been bought ten times over.
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World events are the work of individuals whose motives are often frivolous, even casual.
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There is no such thing as a true account of anything.
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I’m not a conspiracy theorist - I’m a conspiracy analyst.
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As one gets older, litigation replaces sex.
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I'm not for real revolutions, because they always bring you the opposite of what you want. You very seldom get what you want if you have a violent revolution.
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Always a godfather, never a god.
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Everybody is bisexual, and that is a fact of human nature. Some people practice both, and some practice one thing, and some people practice another thing and that is the way human beings are.
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Never have children, only grandchildren.
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Next to I win, I told you so are the sweetest words.
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