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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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For the average American, freedom of speech is simply the freedom to repeat what everyone else is saying and no more.
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Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.
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The whole point to American journalism is what ought to be true is true.
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By and large, serious fiction was the work of victims who portrayed victims for an audience of victims who, it was oddly assumed, would want to see their lives realistically portrayed.
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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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I was never my own type so I completely missed my beauty all through my youth.
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I said, well, it's a very primitive country, the United States, and it's full of superstitions, which come out of a very fundamental religious bias, which is primitive Christianity.
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It is reasonable to assume that, by and large, what is not read now will not be read, ever. It is also reasonable to assume that practically nothing that is read now will be read later.
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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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Nothing human is finally calculable even to ourselves we are strange.
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The hatred Americans have for their own government is pathological, if understandable. At one level it is simply thwarted greed: since our religion is making a buck, giving a part of that buck to any government is an act against nature.
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The word heterosexual is an adjective, the word homosexual is an adjective. They describe an activity. Of course there's a homosexual activity of course there's a heterosexual activity. But there's no homosexual person. There's no heterosexual person. Everybody is everything.
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They are longing for a war with Iran. Iran is no more a harm to us than was Iraq or Afghanistan. They invented an enemy, they tell lies, lies, lies. The New York Times goes along with their lies, lies, lies. And they don't stop. When the public that's lied to 30 times a day it's apt to believe the lies, is not it?
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Writing of history is our only heuristic principle. The Germans have a word for it, einfühlen. It is the ability to experience the past in the present and to recreate it. In my books, I have tried to recreate it in the most natural way possible: History must be integrated into the story without the weight of premonition.
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There are certain truths so true that they are practically unbelievable.
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Love, like a sense of humor, is now claimed by everyone even though Love, like a sense of humor, is rather more rare than not, and to most of us poor muddlers unbearable at full strength.
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It is of no consequence to you what others think of you. What matters is what you think of them. That is how you live your life.
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One's neighbor is always the enemy. That is the nature of things.
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Obviously I'm in favor of protecting the rights of everybody: gay, black, women, what have you, American Indians.
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Sex is a continuum. You go through different phases along life's way... and if you don't, you've been sort of cheated.
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