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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Americans, in general, are ignorant, bigoted, and deeply unhappy with their declining incomes.
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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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Remember, I'm West Point, where I was born. My father went there.
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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.
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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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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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The American high school graduate is two years behind his English, French or German counterpart; in Alabama, God knows how far behind.
Most of our writers tend to be recorders.
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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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While campaigning, I got to know many high-school teachers, and let me say that the good ones are the unsung heroes of our society, and the bad ones are the gravediggers.