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The real writer learns nothing from life. He is more like an oyster or a sponge.
Gore Vidal
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Gore Vidal
Age: 86 †
Born: 1925
Born: October 3
Died: 2012
Died: July 31
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It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four percent of the people.
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A superficial education would be worse than none. But a full education would open every man's eyes to the nature of human existence.
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When the Presidential virus attacks the system there is a tendency for the patient in his fever to move from the Right or the Left to the Center where the curative votes are.
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No reform ever came from the bottom, and it was always people who understood how the ruling class worked who turned out to be the reformers.
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There are a great many people who have a vested interest in maintaining the stupidity of the American public.
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A writer represents his family history. My grandfather was a senator and my father served in the Roosevelt administration. In other words, I grew up in politics. This is why it seemed perfectly natural to take part in the battles of my time, and to participate in the writing of the history of my country.
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I was never my own type so I completely missed my beauty all through my youth.
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I suppose my liking for Italy is partly atavism, my family are of the old Roman stock. They came from the Alps north of Venice.
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That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president.
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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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In writing and politicking, it's best not to think about it, just do it.
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We are the United States of Amnesia, we learn nothing because we remember nothing.
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Each writer is born with a repertory company in his head.
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The word heterosexual is an adjective, the word homosexual is an adjective. They describe an activity. Of course there's a homosexual activity of course there's a heterosexual activity. But there's no homosexual person. There's no heterosexual person. Everybody is everything.
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I'm in favor of any form of sexual relationship that gives pleasure to those involved. And I have never heard a convincing argument to the contrary.
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Democracy is supposed to give you the feeling of choice, like Painkiller X and Painkiller Y. But they're both just aspirin.
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Traitors who prevail are patriots usurpers who succeed are divine emperors.
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We must declare ourselves, become known allow the world to discover this subterranean life of ours which connects kings and farm boys, artists and clerks. Let them see that the important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.
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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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I suspect that one of the reasons we create fiction is to make sex exciting.
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