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Who gives a damn about being remembered? That's really for amateurs.
Gore Vidal
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Gore Vidal
Age: 86 †
Born: 1925
Born: October 3
Died: 2012
Died: July 31
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They are longing for a war with Iran. Iran is no more a harm to us than was Iraq or Afghanistan. They invented an enemy, they tell lies, lies, lies. The New York Times goes along with their lies, lies, lies. And they don't stop. When the public that's lied to 30 times a day it's apt to believe the lies, is not it?
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I’m not sentimental about anything. Life flows by, and you flow with it or you don’t. Move on and move out.
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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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You hear all this whining going on, Where are our great writers? The thing I might feel doleful about is: Where are the readers?
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I am glad my life is coming to an end. To think that it might last another five hundred years, now that would be terrible, in my case.
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I suspect that one of the reasons we create fiction is to make sex exciting.
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I spend most of my time in California. I feel I am fueled by rage and by the political climate there. I am angry most of the time when I am there, which might be unbearable for someone else, but for me it's fuel for my writing.
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The only absolute attainment is absolute abandonment.
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I was brought up to believe that what is out-of-doors should stay there and not be encouraged in any way.
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A huge number of Americans still believe that Saddam Hussein was responsible for 9/11. You have a people that don't know anything about the rest of the world, and you have leaders who lie to them, lie to them, and lie to them.
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We are the United States of Amnesia, we learn nothing because we remember nothing.
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Nixon was a Southern Rim President, and so antipathetic to the old guard.
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Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they're scraping the top of the barrel.
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