Gore Vidal Quotes

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Gore Vidal

Profession : Novelist

Birth : October 3, 1925

An important governorship used to be the best springboard for would-be presidents.

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Certainly 'The Judgment of Paris' was the novel in which I found my own voice.

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I cannot remember when I was not fascinated by Henry Adams.

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The United States is the only civilized country in the world to class its teachers at the bottom of the social scale.

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TV news is not very instructive.

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A racial or religious or tribal identity is a kind of fact.

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Some of my father's fellow West Pointers once asked him why I turned out so well, his secret in raising me. And he said, 'I never gave him any advice, and he never asked for any.' We agreed on nothing, but we never quarreled once.

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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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We are pleased to dismiss politics as entirely corrupt, if not financially, intellectually.

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Europe began as the relatively empty, uncivilized Wild West of Asia; then the Western Hemisphere became the Wild West of Europe. Now the sun has set in our West and risen once more in the East.

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To prevent the theft of 'Ben-Hur's sets, guards were prowling the back lot long after production had been shut down.

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Friends, there is no Left in American politics.

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When I say 'president,' I still mean Roosevelt - wisely, I think.

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For the record, I'm a Second World War veteran and served in the Pacific.

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I was the most famous kid in the United States. That was 1936.

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Actually, I can't remember when I was not writing.

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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 hate nobody.

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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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My father had lifelong contempt for politicians.

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