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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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Everything's wrong on Wikipedia.
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