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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 suppose that one is always tempted to challenge those who think that they and they alone possess the truth or the way or the key to the mystery.
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Obviously I'm in favor of protecting the rights of everybody: gay, black, women, what have you, American Indians.
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The Puritans left England for America not because they couldn't be Puritans in their mother country, but because they were not allowed to force others to become Puritans in the New World, of course, they could and did.
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I have never been particularly impressed by the self centered musings of my fellow writers.
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To have an interest in both sexes is equally normal. Whether it's practiced or not is something else. Some do. Some don't.
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The brain that doesn't feed itself, eats itself.
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There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.
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The real writer learns nothing from life. He is more like an oyster or a sponge.
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Terrorism is a metaphor, it's an abstract noun. It's like having a war on dandruff. It's something from advertising, it's meaningless.
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Miss Rand now tells us that what we have thought was right is really wrong. The lesson should have read: One for one and none for all.
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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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Never offend an enemy in a small way.
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I sometimes think it is because they are so bad at expressing themselves verbally that writers take to pen and paper in the first place
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I’m not a conspiracy theorist - I’m a conspiracy analyst.
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In a nation that has developed to a high art advertising, the creator who refuses to advertise himself is immediately suspected of having no product worth selling.
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Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they're scraping the top of the barrel.
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You can improve your talent, but your talent is a given, a mysterious constant. You must make it the best of its kind.
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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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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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Nixon was a Southern Rim President, and so antipathetic to the old guard.
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