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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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Baum (Writer of THE WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ) was a true educator, and those who read his Oz books are often made what they were not-imaginative , tolerant, alert to wonders, life.
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The world came so close to self-destruction during my lifetime. I was serving in the American Army, in the Pacific, at the time they bombed Hiroshima and then Nagasaki, and I felt there something like a foretaste of the end of the world.
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The Gores, I think, are a bit brighter than the Bushes, historically speaking.
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In matters of faith, inconvenient evidence is always suppressed while contradictions go unnoticed.
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Age bothers everybody. I was never narcissistic about my looks, but people thought that I should be so therefore I was.
Gore Vidal
Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either.
Gore Vidal
On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.
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The whole point to American journalism is what ought to be true is true.
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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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Truman Capote has made lying an art. A minor art.
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In fact, life itself is a contradiction if only because birth is the direct cause, in every single case, of death
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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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Never have varmints, only grandvarmints.
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Never have children, only grandchildren.
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All Americans born between 1890 and 1945 wanted to be movie stars.
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Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.
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The United States is my subject, but as Hawthorne once wrote, the United States are suited for many admirable purposes, but not to live in.
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Poor John Simon - what a nightmare, to wake up in the morning and realize that you are John Simon.
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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 suspect that one of the reasons we create fiction is to make sex exciting.
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