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I came out of Capitol Hill. Well, that's just not an ordinary background for a writer of the ordinary American sort.
Gore Vidal
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Gore Vidal
Age: 86 †
Born: 1925
Born: October 3
Died: 2012
Died: July 31
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For the average American, freedom of speech is simply the freedom to repeat what everyone else is saying and no more.
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I do not much care for nature, and believe that flowers belong in vases rather than loose and untidy on the ground.
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Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild.
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It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true.
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I’m not a conspiracy theorist - I’m a conspiracy analyst.
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