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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Andy Warhol is the only genius I've ever known with an I.Q. of 60.
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Certainly 'The Judgment of Paris' was the novel in which I found my own voice.
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Universities are filled with poets and novelists conducting demure and careful lives in imitation of Eliot and Forster and those others who (through what seems to be have been discretion) made it.
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Southerners make good novelists: they have so many stories because they have so much family.
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I am a novelist turned temporary adventurer, and I chose to write television, movies and plays for much the same reason that Henry Morgan selected the Spanish Main for his peculiar - and not dissimilar - sphere of operations.
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It is a paradox of the acquisitive society in which we now live that although private morals are regulated by law, the entrepreneur is allowed considerable freedom to use - and abuse - the public in order to make money.
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I think there is an instinct out there to rid us of our masters.
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Jews, blacks and homosexuals are despised by the Christian and Communist majorities of East and West. Also, as a result of the invention of Israel, Jews can now count on the hatred of the Islamic world.
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We are the United States of Amnesia, which is encouraged by a media that has no desire to tell us the truth about anything, serving their corporate masters who have other plans to dominate us.
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Remember, I'm West Point, where I was born. My father went there.
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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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There are so many things the people who take polls never get around to asking.
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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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Like the TV networks, once our government has a hit, it will be repeated over and over again.