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Most writers write books that they wouldn't read. I ought to know I've done it myself.
Gore Vidal
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Gore Vidal
Age: 86 †
Born: 1925
Born: October 3
Died: 2012
Died: July 31
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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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Can you imagine having a love affair going on and on decade after decade? Macabre.
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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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By and large, serious fiction was the work of victims who portrayed victims for an audience of victims who, it was oddly assumed, would want to see their lives realistically portrayed.
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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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I'd still like to be the President, of course, and I think the best way to do that would be to raise an army and seize the Capital. This strikes me as true democracy.
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It is not enough merely to win others must lose.
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You can only have a war with another country. You can't have a war with bad temper or a war against paranoids.
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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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What begins with comedy ends with comedy... in my short view of the matter.
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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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Everything's wrong on Wikipedia.
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Many people in the United States happen to believe that United States policy is wrong in Vietnam and the Vietcong are correct in wanting to organize their country in their own way politically. This happens to be pretty much the opinion of western Europe and the other parts of the world.
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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 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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Realism has always been called cynicism.
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Commercialism is doing well that which should not be done at all.
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First coffee, then a bowel movement. Then the Muse joins me.
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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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The real writer learns nothing from life. He is more like an oyster or a sponge.
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