A Quote by Gore Vidal

I was never my own type so I completely missed my beauty all through my youth.

Gore Vidal

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Beauty Missed My Own Never Own Through Type Youth

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Gore Vidal
American - Writer
October 3, 1925 - July 31, 2012

Since I ought to be arrogant, impressed with my social position, overwhelmed by my beauty, therefore I am. Actually I was never my own type so I completely missed my beauty all through my youth. I have no social position and I stay away from what is known as society as much as possible. But people like to re-invent you, according to cliché.

Gore Vidal

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John Dryden

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Xavier Dolan

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

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John Kani

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Masha Hamilton

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Alfred North Whitehead

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