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I have no television to go on so I get a lot of writing done. That's my substitute for television.
Gore Vidal
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Gore Vidal
Age: 86 †
Born: 1925
Born: October 3
Died: 2012
Died: July 31
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You can improve your talent, but your talent is a given, a mysterious constant. You must make it the best of its kind.
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I'm a much worse guest than I am a host, and I'm not an awfully good host either. I really like being alone.
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[ New York ] is a place that worships incompetence particularly if it's combined with energy and paranoid self-confidence. Only in a city like New York could Truman Capote have made it, or John Simon.
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Celebrities are invariably celebrity-mad, just as liars always believe liars.
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Poor John Simon - what a nightmare, to wake up in the morning and realize that you are John Simon.
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True wisdom is to know the extent of what you don't know quite as well as you know what you do know.
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In a nation that has developed to a high art advertising, the creator who refuses to advertise himself is immediately suspected of having no product worth selling.
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Gentlemen are not supposed to tell the truth about their sex lives, nor are ladies, for that matter. Of course Clinton lied - as would anybody in his position.
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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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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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To justify and extol human greed and egotism is to my mind not only immoral, but evil.
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I’ve always said, ‘I have nothing to say, only to add.’ And it’s with each addition that the writing gets done. The first draft of anything is really just a track.
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People are worse educated than they used to be. Certainly they are not very interested in reading books, as opposed to watching television, movies. They are used to getting things through the eye and the ear. In a small way, literature goes on being written, but few people like it. Once it's bureaucratized by the schoolteachers, the game's up.
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It never occurred to any Enlightenment figure in the eighteenth century that law was not preferable to man.
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I’m not sentimental about anything. Life flows by, and you flow with it or you don’t. Move on and move out.
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Commercialism is doing well that which should not be done at all.
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In almost every case (where the United States has fought wars) our overwhelming commitment to freedom, democracy and human rights has required us to support those regimes that would deny freedom, democracy and human rights to their own people.
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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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No one reads novels anymore. And I don't see the situation improving. People prefer video games, reality TV, and films. There are so many reasons now not to read novels.
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Instead of finding alternative energy sources, we try to subjugate entire regions of the world. People do not understand that by doing this, the United States are going to absolute ruin.
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