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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To prevent the theft of 'Ben-Hur's sets, guards were prowling the back lot long after production had been shut down.
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To preserve the human race, it is now necessary to reorganize society. To this end, an Authority must be created with the power to control human population, to redistribute food, to purify air, water, soil, to re-pattern the cities.
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I was the most famous kid in the United States. That was 1936.
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Remember, I'm West Point, where I was born. My father went there.
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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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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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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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Like the TV networks, once our government has a hit, it will be repeated over and over again.
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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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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 the record, I'm a Second World War veteran and served in the Pacific.
What I like least about myself is my belligerence.
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God, no. Unless you hold office, there's no point in being there.