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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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Gore Vidal
Age: 86 †
Born: 1925
Born: October 3
Died: 2012
Died: July 31
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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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Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both die.
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I don't see us winning the war. We have made enemies of one billion Muslims.
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There was more of a flow to my output of writing in the past, certainly. Having no contemporaries left means you cannot say, Well, so-and-so will like this, which you do when you're younger. You realize there is no so-and-so anymore. You are your own so-and-so. There is a bleak side to it.
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The British are absolutely hung up on class, and whenever they start to really - class for the English is like sex for Americans: They start to shake all over when the subject comes up.
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Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.
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For the average American, freedom of speech is simply the freedom to repeat what everyone else is saying and no more.
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I don't seem to be cynical to myself but how what I say goes down with others is their problem. I'm realistic.
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Don't ever make the mistake with people like me thinking we are looking for heroes. There aren't any and if there were, they would be killed immediately. I'm never surprised by bad behaviour. I expect it.
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Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild.
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It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true.
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Then die. We must all do that. But die, as they say, game.
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Liberal comes from the Latin liberalis, which means pertaining to a free man. In politics, to be liberal is to want to extend democracy through change and reform. One can see why that word had to be erased from our political lexicon.
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What we are is seldom what we want to be, while what we want to be is either denied us or changes with the seasons.
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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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Politics is made up of two words: Poli, which is Greek for many, and tics, which are bloodsucking insects.
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Each writer is born with a repertory company in his head.
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If satire is to be effective, the audience must be aware of the thing satirized.
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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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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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