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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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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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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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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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 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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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.
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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.