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Apparently, 'conspiracy stuff' is now shorthand for unspeakable truth.
Gore Vidal
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Gore Vidal
Age: 86 †
Born: 1925
Born: October 3
Died: 2012
Died: July 31
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The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.
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