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The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world.
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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