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Gore Vidal
Age: 86 †
Born: 1925
Born: October 3
Died: 2012
Died: July 31
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To bring into the world an unwanted human being is as antisocial an act as murder.
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Drugs. If they did not exist our governors would have invented them in order to prohibit them and so make much of the population vulnerable to arrest, imprisonment, seizure of property, and so on.
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There are two things you never turn down: sex and appearing on television.
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One is sorry one could not have taken both branches of the road. But we were not allotted multiple selves.
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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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Always a godfather, never a god.
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Rome ... at its most decadent, had never thought of hiring an actor to go through the motions of being an emperor while the Praetorian Guard ruled.
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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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Since I ought to be arrogant, impressed with my social position, overwhelmed by my beauty, therefore I am. Actually I was never my own type so I completely missed my beauty all through my youth. I have no social position and I stay away from what is known as society as much as possible. But people like to re-invent you, according to cliché.
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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 can understand companionship. I can understand bought sex in the afternoon, but I cannot understand the love affair.
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Everything's wrong on Wikipedia.
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Age bothers everybody. I was never narcissistic about my looks, but people thought that I should be so therefore I was.
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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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I'm a true reactionary. Like all patricians, I'd like to restore the original republic, which we lost 40 years ago when Harry Truman imposed the national security state on us, which has kept us at war, hot or cold, for almost half a century, and it's got us $4 trillion into debt.
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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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Most writers write books that they wouldn't read. I ought to know I've done it myself.
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Although the notion of one god may give comfort to those in need of a daddy, it reminds the rest of us that the totalitarian society is grounded upon the concept of God the father. One paternal god, one paternal leader. Authority is absolute.
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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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That peculiarly American religion, President-worship.
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