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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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When anyone says to me, 'Can you keep a secret?' I say, 'Why should I, if you can't?'
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In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you're a great writer, you must say that you are.
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By 1948, the Italians had begun to pull themselves together, demonstrating once more their astonishing ability to cope with disaster which is so perfectly balanced by their absolute inability to deal with success
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Constant work, constant writing and constant revision. The real writer learns nothing from life. He is more like an oyster or a sponge. What he takes in he takes in normally the way any person takes in experience. But it is what is done with it in his mind, if he is a real writer, that makes his art.
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If satire is to be effective, the audience must be aware of the thing satirized.
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Poor John Simon - what a nightmare, to wake up in the morning and realize that you are John Simon.
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The U.S. Bill of Rights is being steadily eroded, with two million telephone calls tapped, 30 million workers under electronic surveillance, and, says the author, countless Americans harassed by a government that wages spurious wars against drugs and terrorism.
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A writer represents his family history. My grandfather was a senator and my father served in the Roosevelt administration. In other words, I grew up in politics. This is why it seemed perfectly natural to take part in the battles of my time, and to participate in the writing of the history of my country.
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In Southern Europe, we have, of course, very bad governments.
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