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The United States was founded by the brightest people in the country — and we haven't seen them since.
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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If you're a critic of the rulers of the United States, you are either demonized, or you are trivialized by the press, and they do a very good job of making you into a non-person or a ridiculous person.
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All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world.
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Vitriolic really is personal. I am vitriolic. I am savage.
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There was more of a flow to my output of writing in the past, certainly. Having no contemporaries left means you cannot say, Well, so-and-so will like this, which you do when you're younger. You realize there is no so-and-so anymore. You are your own so-and-so. There is a bleak side to it.
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I'm all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.
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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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For true happiness, it is not enough to be successful oneself . . . one's friends must fail.
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Fifty percent of people won't vote, and fifty percent don't read newspapers. I hope it's the same fifty percent.
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Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.
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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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By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he's been bought ten times over.
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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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This separation was absolute in our original Republic. But the sky-godders do not give up easily. In the 1950s they actually got the phrase In God We Trust onto the currency, in direct violation of the First Amendment.
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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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What is there to say, finally, except that pain is bad and pleasure good, life all, death nothing.
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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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Christianity is such a silly religion.
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Ideally, the writer needs no audience other than the few who understand that it is immodest and greedy to want more.
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