Gore Vidal
Gore Vidal
Gore Vidalwas an American writerand a public intellectual known for his patrician manner, epigrammatic wit, and polished style of writing...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth3 October 1925
CityWest Point, NY
CountryUnited States of America
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Each youth betrays considerable anxiety about the wedding night ahead.
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Every country should have at least one King Farouk.
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It makes no difference whom you vote for -- the two parties are really one party representing four percent of the people.
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Certainly 'The Judgment of Paris' was the novel in which I found my own voice.
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The American high school graduate is two years behind his English, French or German counterpart; in Alabama, God knows how far behind.
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Americans are future-minded to the point of obsession. We are impatient at living in the present. Tomorrow is bound to be better... next year, next century, always what might be rather than what is. This trait in us makes for 'progress;' it also makes for a continuing dissatisfaction.
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From April 1775 to July 1776, the undeclared war between England and its American colonies smoldered, flared up, appeared to sputter out... It was hardly, ever, a mass rebellion.
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For certain people, after fifty, litigation takes the place of sex
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I think there is an instinct out there to rid us of our masters.
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I could be a lot happier. I could be the senator from Aerospace taking bribes, and be quite happy.
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It is essential to naturalist doctrine that literature, to be good, must, finally, be the author's experience worked out literally.
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Andy Warhol is the only genius I've ever known with an I.Q. of 60.
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That is New York. I pointed to the waterfront just ahead as if the city were mine.
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A talent for drama is not a talent for writing, but is an ability to articulate human relationships.