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Truman Capote has made lying an art. A minor art.
Gore Vidal
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Gore Vidal
Age: 86 †
Born: 1925
Born: October 3
Died: 2012
Died: July 31
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The British are absolutely hung up on class, and whenever they start to really - class for the English is like sex for Americans: They start to shake all over when the subject comes up.
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I was brought up to believe that what is out-of-doors should stay there and not be encouraged in any way.
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I don't think contemporary writers spend a lot of time reading each other. Particularly writers of the same nationality.
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I was never my own type so I completely missed my beauty all through my youth.
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Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.
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Andy Warhol is the only genius I've ever known with an IQ of 60.
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The behaviour of President Bush on 11 September certainly gives rise to not unnatural suspicions.
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I'm devoted to promiscuity, and always have been. I believe the more you do, the better it is for you. I'm a great health nut, and sex is, I think, absolutely marvelous for the whole system tones you up.
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In large Victorian houses with many rooms and heavy doors, the occupants could be mysterious and exciting to one another in a way that those who live in rackety developments can never hope to be. Not even the lust of a Lord Byron could survive the fact of Levittown.
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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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The people are not stupid, but they are totally misinformed.
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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 real writer learns nothing from life. He is more like an oyster or a sponge.
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Now you have people in Washington who have no interest in the country at all. They're interested in their companies, their corporations grabbing Caspian oil.
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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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By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he's been bought ten times over.
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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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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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Obviously I'm in favor of protecting the rights of everybody: gay, black, women, what have you, American Indians.
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I'm in favor of sexual encounters.
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