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Before the cards that one is dealt by life are the cards that fate has dealt: one's family.
Gore Vidal
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Gore Vidal
Age: 86 †
Born: 1925
Born: October 3
Died: 2012
Died: July 31
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As the age of television progresses the Reagans will be the rule, not the exception. To be perfect for television is all a President has to be these days.
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Writing of history is our only heuristic principle. The Germans have a word for it, einfühlen. It is the ability to experience the past in the present and to recreate it. In my books, I have tried to recreate it in the most natural way possible: History must be integrated into the story without the weight of premonition.
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Some of my father's fellow West Pointers once asked him why I turned out so well, his secret in raising me. And he said, I never gave him any advice, and he never asked for any. We agreed on nothing, but we never quarreled once.
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Yet in a society of conflicting interests the only democratic way in which matters can be improved is through politics, and politics means the compromising of extremes in order to achieve that notorious half loaf which the passionate and the outraged never find sufficient.
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I'd like to see a revival of state legislatures, in which I am a true Jeffersonian.
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Never offend an enemy in a small way.
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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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Love, like a sense of humor, is now claimed by everyone even though Love, like a sense of humor, is rather more rare than not, and to most of us poor muddlers unbearable at full strength.
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Celebrities are invariably celebrity-mad, just as liars always believe liars.
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Traitors who prevail are patriots usurpers who succeed are divine emperors.
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The fool is often oblivious of his own gaucherie.
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I started to read my first book at about the age of six. I started to write a book simultaneously. Not to compete, just to augment. And that's how one starts. Or I started.
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One's neighbor is always the enemy. That is the nature of things.
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