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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Nearly everyone who goes into a campaign is not only eager for the place he hopes to fill but for what might come after.
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If you are a Representative and want to be a Senator, you must be careful not to do anything which might upset the various forces you need to harness to get elected.
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Americans are future-minded to the point of obsession. We are impatient at living in the present. Tomorrow is bound to be better... next year, next century, always what might be rather than what is. This trait in us makes for 'progress;' it also makes for a continuing dissatisfaction.
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I might become an ascetic, live in India. A little rice is about the best I can do now.
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Capote I truly loathed. The way you might loathe an animal. A filthy animal that has found its way into the house.
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You hear all this whining going on, 'Where are our great writers?' The thing I might feel doleful about is: 'Where are the readers?'
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American laws don't work, but at least the laws of physics might work.
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History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true.
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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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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.
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Every generation gets the Tiny Tim it deserves.