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 am a novelist turned temporary adventurer, and I chose to write television, movies and plays for much the same reason that Henry Morgan selected the Spanish Main for his peculiar - and not dissimilar - sphere of operations.
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Certainly 'The Judgment of Paris' was the novel in which I found my own voice.
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Andy Warhol is the only genius I've ever known with an I.Q. of 60.
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Universities are filled with poets and novelists conducting demure and careful lives in imitation of Eliot and Forster and those others who (through what seems to be have been discretion) made it.
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Southerners make good novelists: they have so many stories because they have so much family.
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Why not just eliminate the federal income tax?
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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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Between fourteen and nineteen, I must have begun and abandoned six novels.
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Every generation gets the Tiny Tim it deserves.
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Every country should have at least one King Farouk.
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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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You cannot deprive somebody of life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, because that is a right - constitutional right.
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I don't even read most reviews, unless there is a potential lawsuit on view.
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McCain is significant in the sense that he has no significance at all on any subject.