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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In August 1961, I visited President Kennedy at Hyannis Port. The Berlin Wall was going up, and he was about to begin a huge military buildup - reluctantly, or so he said, as he puffed on a cigar liberated by a friend from Castro's Cuba.
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It is very difficult for a writer of my generation, if he is honest, to pretend indifference to the work of Somerset Maugham. He was always so entirely there.
politics
Friends, there is no Left in American politics.
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For every Scott Fitzgerald concerned with the precise word and the selection of relevant incident, there are a hundred American writers, many well-regarded, who appear to believe that one word is just as good as another and that everything which occurs to them is worth putting down.
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We are pleased to dismiss politics as entirely corrupt, if not financially, intellectually.
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Until very recently, the artist was a magician who did his magic in public view but kept himself and his effects a matter of mystery.
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For the record, I'm a Second World War veteran and served in the Pacific.
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The ownership of this country has usually been pretty shrewd. They knew what they wanted. They don't want to pay taxes, certainly. They don't want people blowing them up in the night like 9/11. And if there ever was great cause for impeachment it would be over 9/11. Never been a case of negligence like that.
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He (Donald) is thorough and very careful not to take sides when there's insufficient evidence,
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I don't even read most reviews, unless there is a potential lawsuit on view.
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God, no. Unless you hold office, there's no point in being there.
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Half of the American people never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.
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He will lie even when it is inconvenient: the sign of the true artist.
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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.