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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.
Gore Vidal
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Gore Vidal
Age: 86 †
Born: 1925
Born: October 3
Died: 2012
Died: July 31
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People are worse educated than they used to be. Certainly they are not very interested in reading books, as opposed to watching television, movies. They are used to getting things through the eye and the ear. In a small way, literature goes on being written, but few people like it. Once it's bureaucratized by the schoolteachers, the game's up.
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I do not much care for nature, and believe that flowers belong in vases rather than loose and untidy on the ground.
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I'm not for real revolutions, because they always bring you the opposite of what you want. You very seldom get what you want if you have a violent revolution.
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The first TV babies are now writing with a TV mind that has no attention span at all.
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Democracy is something America has never really practiced. Because the Founding Fathers hated two things: monarchy and democracy. They wanted a republic, a replica of the Roman or Venetian republics. They didn't even like the etymology of the word democracy.
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The problem with most Americans is that they don't like any question that takes more than ten seconds to answer.
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You can only have a war with another country. You can't have a war with bad temper or a war against paranoids.
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Nonprofit status is what created the Bible Belt. The tax code brought religion back to this country.
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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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Never have children, only grandchildren.
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I might become an ascetic, live in India. A little rice is about the best I can do now.
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USA is suffering between imperialists and anti-imperialists. That is the situation. The most powerful country in the world is on its way back to the Stone Age.
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Who gives a damn about being remembered? That's really for amateurs.
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Truman Capote has made lying an art. A minor art.
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