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Having no talent is no longer enough.

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Gore Vidal
Age: 86 †
Born: 1925
Born: October 3
Died: 2012
Died: July 31
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I believe there's something very salutary in, say, beating up a gay-bashing policeman. Preferably one fights through the courts, through the laws, through education, but if at a neighborhood level violence is necessary, I'm all for violence. It's the only thing Americans understand.
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Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they're scraping the top of the barrel.
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Nothing human is finally calculable even to ourselves we are strange.
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Everything's wrong on Wikipedia.
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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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One's neighbor is always the enemy. That is the nature of things.
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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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Little Bush says we are at war, but we are not at war because to be at war Congress has to vote for it. He says we are at war on terror, but that is a metaphor, though I doubt if he knows what that means. It's like having a war on dandruff, it's endless and pointless.
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...you will do more harm than good by attempting to supplant old dogmas and customs with new dogmas. It will be the same in the end except that the old is less militant, less dangerous than a new order imposed by enthusiasts.
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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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I was never my own type so I completely missed my beauty all through my youth.
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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 first TV babies are now writing with a TV mind that has no attention span at all.
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The brain that doesn't feed itself, eats itself.
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The important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.
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They are longing for a war with Iran. Iran is no more a harm to us than was Iraq or Afghanistan. They invented an enemy, they tell lies, lies, lies. The New York Times goes along with their lies, lies, lies. And they don't stop. When the public that's lied to 30 times a day it's apt to believe the lies, is not it?
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CO₂ emissions anywhere threaten civilisation everywhere.
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On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.
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[Norman Mailer] is against masturbation, he's against homosexuality. He believes that murder is essentially sexual. I think he's rather an anthology of all the darkest American traits.
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Persuading the people to vote against their own best interests has been the awesome genius of the American political elite from the beginning.
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