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
human ought time
The human race is plainly nothing in eternity, but to us, in time, it is everything and ought not to die.
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Jack Kennedy very much enjoyed Fletcher Knebel's thriller 'Seven Days in May,' later a film. The story: a jingo based on the real-life Admiral Arthur Radford plans a military coup to take over the White House.
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It is true, as Sartre once wrote, referring to French Army atrocities in Algeria, that the real tragedy in our time is that any of us can be, interchangeably, victim or torturer.
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My father once said something very shrewd about me to a woman journalist who had told him how courageous she thought I was for always speaking my mind. My father said, 'If you couldn't care less what anyone says about you, then it's not courage.'
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I've yet to read a memoir by anyone I've known at all well that came anywhere near to the truth.
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In actual fact, I have always been a conservative cross, borne sadly by liberal friends.
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To invent a war means that you've become a wartime president, and you can suspend much if not all of the Bill of Rights.
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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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It's always best to stay out of other people's divorces. And their civil wars.
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When I say 'president,' I still mean Roosevelt - wisely, I think.
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What other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke?
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Anybody who is stupid enough to want to be remembered deserves to be forgotten right now.
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I can't name three first-rate literary critics in the United States. I'm told there are a few hidden away at universities, but they don't print them in 'The New York Times.'
religion
Some have deplored Lincoln's indifference to Christianity. But it was not religion, it was religiosity that put him off.