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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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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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When anyone says to me, 'Can you keep a secret?' I say, 'Why should I, if you can't?'
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I was the first - I was extremely unpopular with the establishment of the United States, particularly the New York Times was always an enemy, and Time magazine, off and on, the enemy, because I said things and took positions that other people didn't do.
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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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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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France is a nation devoted to the false hypothesis on which it then builds marvelously logical structures.
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The whole point to American journalism is what ought to be true is true. Since I ought to be arrogant, impressed with my social position, overwhelmed by my beauty, therefore I am.
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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
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Never offend an enemy in a small way.
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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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I'm in Hollywood right now, surrounded by nothing but the sons and grandsons of movie stars.
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