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Celebrities are invariably celebrity-mad, just as liars always believe liars.
Gore Vidal
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Gore Vidal
Age: 86 †
Born: 1925
Born: October 3
Died: 2012
Died: July 31
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We are the United States of Amnesia, we learn nothing because we remember nothing.
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