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'm a fervent foe of water pollution, whether it is our own Hudson River or Philadelphia's tap water.
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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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In classical times, it was a capital offense to speculate upon the hour of a king's death or upon the identity of his successor.
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That is New York. I pointed to the waterfront just ahead as if the city were mine.
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After the French Revolution, the world money power shifted from Paris to London. For three generations, the British maintained an old-fashioned colonial empire, as well as a modern empire based on London's primacy in the money markets.
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In essence, Clinton's Anti-Terrorism Act would set up a national police force, over the long-dead bodies of the founders.
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I like the way you always manage to state the obvious with a sense of real discovery.
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Andy Warhol is the only genius I've ever known with an I.Q. of 60.
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Each youth betrays considerable anxiety about the wedding night ahead.
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During the late '50s, I had worked on the script of Ben-Hur in an office next to that of the producer Sam Zimbalist.
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You cannot deprive somebody of life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, because that is a right - constitutional right.
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Between fourteen and nineteen, I must have begun and abandoned six novels.
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To get people to do needed things is the perennial hard task of government, not to mention of religion and philosophy.
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Every generation gets the Tiny Tim it deserves.