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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.
Gore Vidal
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Gore Vidal
Age: 86 †
Born: 1925
Born: October 3
Died: 2012
Died: July 31
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I do not much care for nature, and believe that flowers belong in vases rather than loose and untidy on the ground.
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By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he's been bought ten times over.
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It never occurred to any Enlightenment figure in the eighteenth century that law was not preferable to man.
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Apparently, 'conspiracy stuff' is now shorthand for unspeakable truth.
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What we are is seldom what we want to be, while what we want to be is either denied us or changes with the seasons.
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