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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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In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you're a great writer, you must say that you are.
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Each writer is born with a repertory company in his head.
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The Puritans left England for America not because they couldn't be Puritans in their mother country, but because they were not allowed to force others to become Puritans in the New World, of course, they could and did.
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Christianity is such a silly religion.
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Since I ought to be arrogant, impressed with my social position, overwhelmed by my beauty, therefore I am. Actually I was never my own type so I completely missed my beauty all through my youth. I have no social position and I stay away from what is known as society as much as possible. But people like to re-invent you, according to cliché.
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There is no such thing as a true account of anything.
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Ultimately, totalitarianism is the only sort of politics that can truly serve the sky-god's purpose. Any movement of a liberal nature endangers his authority and that of his delegates on earth. One God, one King, one Pope, one master in the factory, one father-leader in the family at home.
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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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Democracy is supposed to give you the feeling of choice, like Painkiller X and Painkiller Y. But they're both just aspirin.
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Vitriolic really is personal. I am vitriolic. I am savage.
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I find in most novels no imagination at all. They seem to think the highest form of the novel is to write about marriage, because that's the most important thing there is for middle-class people.
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Commercialism is doing well that which should not be done at all.
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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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Obviously I'm in favor of protecting the rights of everybody: gay, black, women, what have you, American Indians.
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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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...you will do more harm than good by attempting to supplant old dogmas and customs with new dogmas. It will be the same in the end except that the old is less militant, less dangerous than a new order imposed by enthusiasts.
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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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A superficial education would be worse than none. But a full education would open every man's eyes to the nature of human existence.
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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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Rome ... at its most decadent, had never thought of hiring an actor to go through the motions of being an emperor while the Praetorian Guard ruled.
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