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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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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The Pentagon talks about our power to 'overkill' Russia ten times, twenty times, perhaps forty-eight times. For my tax money, it is sufficient to overkill them once.
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By the end of World War II, we were the most powerful and least damaged of the great nations. We also had most of the money. America's hegemony lasted exactly five years.
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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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U.S. certainly are not warlike. We don't want that. We want to make money, which I always thought was one of the most admirable things about Americans.
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The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.
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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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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.