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Most children tell themselves stories in which they figure as powerful figures, enjoying the pleasures not only of the adult world as they conceive it but of a world of wonders unlike dull reality.
Gore Vidal
Gore Vidal
Gore Vidal
Born: Oct 3, 1925
Died: Jul 31, 2012

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