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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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I write in the morning at a table, longhand on yellow legal pads, just like Nixon, when I’m doing fiction.
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I might become an ascetic, live in India. A little rice is about the best I can do now.
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I spend most of my time in California. I feel I am fueled by rage and by the political climate there. I am angry most of the time when I am there, which might be unbearable for someone else, but for me it's fuel for my writing.
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I'm in Hollywood right now, surrounded by nothing but the sons and grandsons of movie stars.
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Terrorism is a metaphor, it's an abstract noun. It's like having a war on dandruff. It's something from advertising, it's meaningless.
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Never have children, only grandchildren.
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I'm in favor of sexual encounters.
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Yet in a society of conflicting interests the only democratic way in which matters can be improved is through politics, and politics means the compromising of extremes in order to achieve that notorious half loaf which the passionate and the outraged never find sufficient.
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Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.
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The greatest pleasure when I started making money was not buying cars or yachts but finding myself able to have as many freshly typed drafts as possible.
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Write something, even if it's just a suicide note.
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