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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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I'd still like to be the President, of course, and I think the best way to do that would be to raise an army and seize the Capital. This strikes me as true democracy.
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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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Politics is made up of two words: Poli, which is Greek for many, and tics, which are bloodsucking insects.
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On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.
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I'm devoted to promiscuity, and always have been. I believe the more you do, the better it is for you. I'm a great health nut, and sex is, I think, absolutely marvelous for the whole system tones you up.
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Don't ever make the mistake with people like me thinking we are looking for heroes. There aren't any and if there were, they would be killed immediately. I'm never surprised by bad behaviour. I expect it.
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Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild.
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Of course, it is possible for any citizen with time to spare, and a canny eye, to work out what is actually going on, but for the many there is not time, and the network news is the only news even though it may not be news at all but only a series of flashing fictions.
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As the age of television progresses the Reagans will be the rule, not the exception. To be perfect for television is all a President has to be these days.
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First coffee, then a bowel movement. Then the Muse joins me.
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I said, well, it's a very primitive country, the United States, and it's full of superstitions, which come out of a very fundamental religious bias, which is primitive Christianity.
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Love, like a sense of humor, is now claimed by everyone even though Love, like a sense of humor, is rather more rare than not, and to most of us poor muddlers unbearable at full strength.
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Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.
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I suspect that one of the reasons we create fiction is to make sex exciting.
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I believe there's something very salutary in, say, beating up a gay-bashing policeman. Preferably one fights through the courts, through the laws, through education, but if at a neighborhood level violence is necessary, I'm all for violence. It's the only thing Americans understand.
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To speak today of a famous novelist is like speaking of a famous cabinetmaker or speedboat designer. Adjective is inappropriate to noun.
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Never have children, only grandchildren.
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Where there is no desire or pursuits, there is no wholeness. But there are satisfying lesser states, fragments.
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In writing and politicking, it's best not to think about it, just do it.
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Persuading the people to vote against their own best interests has been the awesome genius of the American political elite from the beginning.
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