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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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Class is the most difficult subject for American writers to deal with as it is the most difficult for the English to avoid.
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A writer represents his family history. My grandfather was a senator and my father served in the Roosevelt administration. In other words, I grew up in politics. This is why it seemed perfectly natural to take part in the battles of my time, and to participate in the writing of the history of my country.
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The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.
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People like to re-invent you, according to cliché. There are a lot of stores about me that really apply only to Capote or Mailer or somebody else. Everything is a mish mash.
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There are a great many people who have a vested interest in maintaining the stupidity of the American public.
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I can understand companionship. I can understand bought sex in the afternoon, but I cannot understand the love affair.
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Every time a friend succeeds, I die a little.
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I started to read my first book at about the age of six. I started to write a book simultaneously. Not to compete, just to augment. And that's how one starts. Or I started.
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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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Most writers write books that they wouldn't read. I ought to know I've done it myself.
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Never have children, only grandchildren.
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Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.
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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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You hear all this whining going on, Where are our great writers? The thing I might feel doleful about is: Where are the readers?
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Everybody has two legs, two lobes to the brain which is why we tend to be interested in symmetry, always balancing things.
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I have been saying for the some time now that America has only one party - the property party. It's the party of big corporation, the party of money. It has two right wings one is Democrat and the other is Republican.
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I think we're going to have to accept the fact the U.S. is off the world map. We are not a great player any longer. And when we come home - as we will have to do because we've run out of money - we will discover that Argentine debts means Argentine politics. And on that note, you can wake up in the middle of the night.
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I don't see us winning the war. We have made enemies of one billion Muslims.
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Always a godfather, never a god.
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The word 'radical' derives from the Latin word for root. Therefore, if you want to get to the root of anything you must be radical. It is no accident that the word has now been totally demonized.
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