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 like the way you always manage to state the obvious with a sense of real discovery.
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It's odd to meet a rather elderly man who says, 'I've been reading you all my life.' It makes you feel a slight chill.
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Overcrowding in the cities is producing a collective madness in which irrational violence flourishes because man needs more space in which to be than the modern city allows.
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World War II made prosperous the United States, which had been undergoing a depression for a dozen years, and made very rich those magnates and their managers who govern the republic - with many a wink - in the people's name.
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That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president.
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Americans are not only a less homogenous population than we were when we were 3 million ex-colonists, but we're less educated. On top of that, we have constant misinformation and manipulation by media.
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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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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 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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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.