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Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status.
Gore Vidal
Born: October 3, 1925
Died: July 31, 2012 (aged 86)
Bio: Gore Vidal was an American writer and a public intellectual known for his patrician manner, epigrammatic wit, and polished style of writing.
Known for:
- Myra Breckinridge (1968)
- The City and the Pillar (1948)
- Lincoln (1984)
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