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I was never my own type so I completely missed my beauty all through my youth.
Gore Vidal
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Gore Vidal
Age: 86 †
Born: 1925
Born: October 3
Died: 2012
Died: July 31
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On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.
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Every time a friend succeeds, I die a little.
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People have forgotten the effects of prohibition. We have become the United Statesof Amnesia.
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To have an interest in both sexes is equally normal. Whether it's practiced or not is something else. Some do. Some don't.
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Now you have people in Washington who have no interest in the country at all. They're interested in their companies, their corporations grabbing Caspian oil.
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I'm a true reactionary. Like all patricians, I'd like to restore the original republic, which we lost 40 years ago when Harry Truman imposed the national security state on us, which has kept us at war, hot or cold, for almost half a century, and it's got us $4 trillion into debt.
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I look into my own black heart.
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I'm all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.
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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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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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Class is the most difficult subject for American writers to deal with as it is the most difficult for the English to avoid.
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