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Gore Vidal

"Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made."

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"Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made."

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"Time passes..and a billion lives are affected in ways we'll never know."

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"Each second of every time has its own story and history to be filed."

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"Time is standing still, but we are running away from it and complaining that time is slipping away from us."

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"A good deed never goes unpunished."
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"Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates."
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"It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail."
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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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"The greatest pleasure when I started making money was not buying cars or yachts but finding myself able to have as many freshly typed drafts as possible."
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