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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Novels, except as aids to masturbation, play no part in contemporary life.
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Eisenhower's career demonstrated how it is possible to fool all the people all the time...'I may be stupid,' he once said at a press conference, 'but at least I'm sincere!' Actually, he was neither, but it suited his purpose to play the part of the bumbling man of good will who was 'not an expert in these matters' but somehow would do his best.
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Each writer is born with a repertory company in his head. Shakespeare has perhaps 20 players. ... I have 10 or so, and thats a lot. As you get older, you become more skillful at casting them.
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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.
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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.