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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While campaigning, I got to know many high-school teachers, and let me say that the good ones are the unsung heroes of our society, and the bad ones are the gravediggers.
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Walter Lippmann suggests that the United States behaves like a society which thinks it is complete with no more to accomplish; that, for better or worse, we are what we are, and the only danger to our comfort is external.
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What the police in their ignorance have not figured out is that they have lost all credibility since World War II. They are sort of parasites on the fringe of society and do no particular good for anyone except possibly themselves.
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To preserve the human race, it is now necessary to reorganize society. To this end, an Authority must be created with the power to control human population, to redistribute food, to purify air, water, soil, to re-pattern the cities.
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The individual's desire to dominate his environment is not a desirable trait in a society which every day grows more and more confining.
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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.