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Vitriolic really is personal. I am vitriolic. I am savage.
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 Puritans left England for America not because they couldn't be Puritans in their mother country, but because they were not allowed to force others to become Puritans in the New World, of course, they could and did.
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A good deed never goes unpunished.
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The unfed mind devours itself.
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Half the American population no longer reads newspapers: plainly, they are the clever half.
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The whole point to American journalism is what ought to be true is true.
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