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What begins with comedy ends with comedy... in my short view of the matter.
Gore Vidal
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Gore Vidal
Age: 86 †
Born: 1925
Born: October 3
Died: 2012
Died: July 31
Actor
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Non-Fiction Writer
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It is of no consequence to you what others think of you. What matters is what you think of them. That is how you live your life.
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People like to re-invent you, according to cliché. There are a lot of stores about me that really apply only to Capote or Mailer or somebody else. Everything is a mish mash.
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Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made.
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Precocious talents mature slowly if at all.
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I am glad my life is coming to an end. To think that it might last another five hundred years, now that would be terrible, in my case.
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Always a godfather, never a god.
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Commercialism is doing well that which should not be done at all.
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Persuading the people to vote against their own best interests has been the awesome genius of the American political elite from the beginning.
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Then die. We must all do that. But die, as they say, game.
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Most writers write books that they wouldn't read. I ought to know I've done it myself.
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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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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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A huge number of Americans still believe that Saddam Hussein was responsible for 9/11. You have a people that don't know anything about the rest of the world, and you have leaders who lie to them, lie to them, and lie to them.
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Who gives a damn about being remembered? That's really for amateurs.
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There are certain truths so true that they are practically unbelievable.
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Now the long-feared Asiatic colossus takes its turn as world leader, and we--the white race--have become the yellow man's burden.Let us hope that he will treat us more kindly than we treated him.
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When the Presidential virus attacks the system there is a tendency for the patient in his fever to move from the Right or the Left to the Center where the curative votes are.
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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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I'd like to see a revival of state legislatures, in which I am a true Jeffersonian.
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The unfed mind devours itself.
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