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Sex was a great no-no for Americans, so that was obviously an attraction to the writers, and since sex is a great part of most people's lives, it's a great subject.

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Gore Vidal
Age: 86 †
Born: 1925
Born: October 3
Died: 2012
Died: July 31
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Congress no longer declares war or makes budgets. So that's the end of the constitution as a working machine.
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I think we're going to have to accept the fact the U.S. is off the world map. We are not a great player any longer. And when we come home - as we will have to do because we've run out of money - we will discover that Argentine debts means Argentine politics. And on that note, you can wake up in the middle of the night.
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I was never my own type so I completely missed my beauty all through my youth.
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Rome ... at its most decadent, had never thought of hiring an actor to go through the motions of being an emperor while the Praetorian Guard ruled.
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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.
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Everybody has two legs, two lobes to the brain which is why we tend to be interested in symmetry, always balancing things.
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If you want to rise in politics in the United States, there is one subject you must stay away from, and that is politics.
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In Southern Europe, we have, of course, very bad governments.
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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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I was the first - I was extremely unpopular with the establishment of the United States, particularly the New York Times was always an enemy, and Time magazine, off and on, the enemy, because I said things and took positions that other people didn't do.
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