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There is no such thing as a true account of anything.
Gore Vidal
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Gore Vidal
Age: 86 †
Born: 1925
Born: October 3
Died: 2012
Died: July 31
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We should stop going around babbling about how we're the greatest democracy on earth, when we're not even a democracy. We are a sort of militarised republic.
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I'd still like to be the President, of course, and I think the best way to do that would be to raise an army and seize the Capital. This strikes me as true democracy.
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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.
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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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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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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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For true happiness, it is not enough to be successful oneself . . . one's friends must fail.
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Terrorism is a metaphor, it's an abstract noun. It's like having a war on dandruff. It's something from advertising, it's meaningless.
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My father had a deep and lifelong contempt for politicians in general (They tell lies, he used to say with wonder, even when they don't have to).
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Realism has always been called cynicism.
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American laws don't work, but at least the laws of physics might work.
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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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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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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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