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What is a political party but a conspiracy?
Gore Vidal
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Gore Vidal
Age: 86 †
Born: 1925
Born: October 3
Died: 2012
Died: July 31
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If you're not part of that club, as I certainly am not, you are not presidential.
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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
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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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I can understand companionship. I can understand bought sex in the afternoon, but I cannot understand the love affair.
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The New York Times is the worst in that hardly anybody can write English over there. Most of it reads like slight translations from the German.
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