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Gore Vidal
Age: 86 †
Born: 1925
Born: October 3
Died: 2012
Died: July 31
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I look into my own black heart.
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In Southern Europe, we have, of course, very bad governments.
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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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Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.
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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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There are two things you never turn down: sex and appearing on television.
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The greatest pleasure when I started making money was not buying cars or yachts but finding myself able to have as many freshly typed drafts as possible.
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Andy Warhol is the only genius I've ever known with an IQ of 60.
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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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Having no talent is no longer enough.
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I’m not sentimental about anything. Life flows by, and you flow with it or you don’t. Move on and move out.
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I am an obsessive rewriter, doing one draft and then another and another, usually five. In a way, I have nothing to say, but a great deal to add.
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[Norman Mailer] is against masturbation, he's against homosexuality. He believes that murder is essentially sexual. I think he's rather an anthology of all the darkest American traits.
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In almost every case (where the United States has fought wars) our overwhelming commitment to freedom, democracy and human rights has required us to support those regimes that would deny freedom, democracy and human rights to their own people.
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We have been at war almost constantly since the last century. And it has not helped our institutions. Congress no longer represents the people. The courts do not practice justice any more. The armies never stop playing at being the policemen of the world and of oil.
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There are a great many people who have a vested interest in maintaining the stupidity of the American public.
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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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Constant work, constant writing and constant revision. The real writer learns nothing from life. He is more like an oyster or a sponge. What he takes in he takes in normally the way any person takes in experience. But it is what is done with it in his mind, if he is a real writer, that makes his art.
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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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It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four percent of the people.
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