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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I didn't mean to spend my life writing American history, which should have been taught in the schools, but I saw no alternative but to taking it on myself. I could think of a lot of cheerier things I'd rather be doing than analyzing George Washington and Aaron Burr. But it came to pass, that was my job, so I did it.
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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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In character, as it were, the writer settles for an impression of what happened rather than creating the sense of the thing happening.
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It's odd to meet a rather elderly man who says, 'I've been reading you all my life.' It makes you feel a slight chill.
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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.
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I was the most famous kid in the United States. That was 1936.