Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either.

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About Gore Vidal

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Eugene Luther Gore Vidal ( vih-DAHL; born Eugene Louis Vidal, October 3, 1925 – July 31, 2012) was an American writer and public intellectual known for his cynical epigrammatic wit. His novels and essays criticized the social and sexual norms he perceived as driving American life. Vidal was heavily involved...

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Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say and not giving a damn.

Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.

I'm a born-again atheist.

There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.

Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half have never voted for president. One hopes it is the same half.

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A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.

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I would never be popular. I didn't want to be; I liked being shy. I'd never be the smartest or the hottest or the happiest.

—Laurie Halse Anderson in Wintergirls

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My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.

—Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

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By a curious confusion, many modern critics have passed from the proposition that a masterpiece may be unpopular to the other proposition that unless it is unpopular it cannot be a masterpiece.

—G. K. Chesterton

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Heroes are created by popular demand, sometimes out of the scantiest materials, or none at all.

—Gerald W. Johnson

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