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The fool is often oblivious of his own gaucherie.
Gore Vidal
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Gore Vidal
Age: 86 †
Born: 1925
Born: October 3
Died: 2012
Died: July 31
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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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No reform ever came from the bottom, and it was always people who understood how the ruling class worked who turned out to be the reformers.
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Drugs. If they did not exist our governors would have invented them in order to prohibit them and so make much of the population vulnerable to arrest, imprisonment, seizure of property, and so on.
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As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.
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One's neighbor is always the enemy. That is the nature of things.
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Write something, even if it's just a suicide note.
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In fact, life itself is a contradiction if only because birth is the direct cause, in every single case, of death
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By 1948, the Italians had begun to pull themselves together, demonstrating once more their astonishing ability to cope with disaster which is so perfectly balanced by their absolute inability to deal with success
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Southerners make good novelists: they have so many stories because they have so much family.
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I was the first - I was extremely unpopular with the establishment of the United States, particularly the New York Times was always an enemy, and Time magazine, off and on, the enemy, because I said things and took positions that other people didn't do.
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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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