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Gore Vidal
Age: 86 †
Born: 1925
Born: October 3
Died: 2012
Died: July 31
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The United States was founded by the brightest people in the country — and we haven't seen them since.
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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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Americans are not only a less homogenous population than we were when we were 3 million ex-colonists, but we're less educated. On top of that, we have constant misinformation and manipulation by media.
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A talent for drama is not a talent for writing, but is ability to articulate human relationships.
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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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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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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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Yet in a society of conflicting interests the only democratic way in which matters can be improved is through politics, and politics means the compromising of extremes in order to achieve that notorious half loaf which the passionate and the outraged never find sufficient.
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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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Never have children, only grandchildren.
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Gentlemen are not supposed to tell the truth about their sex lives, nor are ladies, for that matter. Of course Clinton lied - as would anybody in his position.
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The real writer learns nothing from life. He is more like an oyster or a sponge.
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All Americans born between 1890 and 1945 wanted to be movie stars.
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By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he's been bought ten times over.
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You hear all this whining going on, Where are our great writers? The thing I might feel doleful about is: Where are the readers?
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True wisdom is to know the extent of what you don't know quite as well as you know what you do know.
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We should stop going around babbling about how we're the greatest democracy on earth, when we're not even a democracy. We are a sort of militarised republic.
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Southerners make good novelists: they have so many stories because they have so much family.
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