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Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either.
Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either.
Approximate author period: c. 1968 AD · modern
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- Gore Vidal
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- Approximate author period: c. 1968 AD · modern
Approximate author-period anchor from life dates 1925 to 2012; Wikidata Q167821, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q167821 (accessed 2026-10-08). Not a quotation composition date.
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