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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.
Gore Vidal
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Gore Vidal
Age: 86 †
Born: 1925
Born: October 3
Died: 2012
Died: July 31
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Andy Warhol is the only genius I've ever known with an IQ of 60.
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I have never been particularly impressed by the self centered musings of my fellow writers.
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Rome ... at its most decadent, had never thought of hiring an actor to go through the motions of being an emperor while the Praetorian Guard ruled.
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Democracy is something America has never really practiced. Because the Founding Fathers hated two things: monarchy and democracy. They wanted a republic, a replica of the Roman or Venetian republics. They didn't even like the etymology of the word democracy.
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The true confessors have been aware that not only is life mostly failure, but that in one's failure or pettiness or wrongness exists the living drama of the self.
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If you're not part of that club, as I certainly am not, you are not presidential.
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I am glad my life is coming to an end. To think that it might last another five hundred years, now that would be terrible, in my case.
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When the Presidential virus attacks the system there is a tendency for the patient in his fever to move from the Right or the Left to the Center where the curative votes are.
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Many people in the United States happen to believe that United States policy is wrong in Vietnam and the Vietcong are correct in wanting to organize their country in their own way politically. This happens to be pretty much the opinion of western Europe and the other parts of the world.
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I’m not a conspiracy theorist - I’m a conspiracy analyst.
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The family in the West is finished... its origin was economic, not biological... the odd group of strangers that make up every family no longer have any reason to live together, to suffer from one another's jagged edges.
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We have been at war almost constantly since the last century. And it has not helped our institutions. Congress no longer represents the people. The courts do not practice justice any more. The armies never stop playing at being the policemen of the world and of oil.
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Obviously I'm in favor of protecting the rights of everybody: gay, black, women, what have you, American Indians.
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The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.
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Fifty percent of people won't vote, and fifty percent don't read newspapers. I hope it's the same fifty percent.
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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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In writing and politicking, it's best not to think about it, just do it.
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A huge number of Americans still believe that Saddam Hussein was responsible for 9/11. You have a people that don't know anything about the rest of the world, and you have leaders who lie to them, lie to them, and lie to them.
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We are the United States of Amnesia, we learn nothing because we remember nothing.
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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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