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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.
Gore Vidal
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Gore Vidal
Age: 86 †
Born: 1925
Born: October 3
Died: 2012
Died: July 31
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I was never my own type so I completely missed my beauty all through my youth.
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Come to me and show me a small cancer and I'll tell you you've got a small cancer that should be cut out. That's realism but in America it's called cynicism.
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I find in most novels no imagination at all. They seem to think the highest form of the novel is to write about marriage, because that's the most important thing there is for middle-class people.
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People have forgotten the effects of prohibition. We have become the United Statesof Amnesia.
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We were to be forever at war with somebody. We were going to fight communism everywhere on earth even if it didn't threaten us. It was a holy war, just as we've made one on terrorism and Islam, equally stupid and equally irrelevant.
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Traitors who prevail are patriots usurpers who succeed are divine emperors.
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Nothing human is finally calculable even to ourselves we are strange.
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Sex is a continuum. You go through different phases along life's way... and if you don't, you've been sort of cheated.
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They are longing for a war with Iran. Iran is no more a harm to us than was Iraq or Afghanistan. They invented an enemy, they tell lies, lies, lies. The New York Times goes along with their lies, lies, lies. And they don't stop. When the public that's lied to 30 times a day it's apt to believe the lies, is not it?
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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 Congress no longer represents the people.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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Drugs. If they did not exist our governors would have invented them in order to prohibit them and so make much of the population vulnerable to arrest, imprisonment, seizure of property, and so on.
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We affect one another quite enough merely by existing. Whenever the stars cross, or is it comets? fragments pass briefly from one orbit to another. On rare occasions there is total collision, but most often the two simply continue without incident, neither losing more than a particle to the other, in passing.
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Most lives are spent putting on and taking off masks.
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One of the most fascinating aspects of politician-watching is trying to determine to what extent any politician believes what he says.
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Of course, it is possible for any citizen with time to spare, and a canny eye, to work out what is actually going on, but for the many there is not time, and the network news is the only news even though it may not be news at all but only a series of flashing fictions.
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The brain that doesn't feed itself, eats itself.
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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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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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Realism has always been called cynicism.
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Celebrities are invariably celebrity-mad, just as liars always believe liars.
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