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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Andy Warhol is the only genius I've ever known with an I.Q. of 60.
drama writing genius
A talent for drama is not a talent for writing, but is ability to articulate human relationships.
literature genius warhol
Andy Warhol is the only genius I've ever known with an I.Q. of 60.
people political genius
Persuading the people to vote against their own best interests has been the awesome genius of the American political elite from the beginning.
betrays night wedding
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.
fourteen
Between fourteen and nineteen, I must have begun and abandoned six novels.
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Temperamentally, I am suspicious of belonging to anything. When I ran for office, I debated seriously whether or not to run as an independent because I was not eager to be saddled with the Democratic Party, because any party label is committing.
tim tiny
Every generation gets the Tiny Tim it deserves.
country
Every country should have at least one King Farouk.
favorite follow sports
Baseball is the favorite American sport because it's so slow. Any idiot can follow it. And just about any idiot can play it.
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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.
Most of our writers tend to be recorders.
government repeated tv
Like the TV networks, once our government has a hit, it will be repeated over and over again.