Gore Vidal

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Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.


— Gore Vidal


#american #american people #half #hopes #never

Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.


— Gore Vidal


#giving #knowing #say #style #want

Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either.


— Gore Vidal


#either #evidence #figures #longer #own

The important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.


— Gore Vidal


#inspirational #love #inspirational

I’m not sentimental about anything. Life flows by, and you flow with it or you don’t. Move on and move out.


— Gore Vidal


#death

To a born-again atheist like myself, it is clear that each of us has multiple selves, talents, perceptions. But to the Roman Catholic, unity is all.


— Gore Vidal


#atheist #born-again #religion #religion

As the age of television progresses the Reagans will be the rule, not the exception. To be perfect for television is all a President has to be these days.


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#days #exception #perfect #president #progresses

A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.


— Gore Vidal


#better looking #looking #narcissist #someone #than

Andy Warhol is the only genius I've ever known with an IQ of 60.


— Gore Vidal


#art

We are the United States of Amnesia, we learn nothing because we remember nothing.


— Gore Vidal


#politics #united-states #united-states






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What a Concept. The producers later made an attempt to salvage some of Vidal's vision in the film's post-production. " During the taping of the show there was a legendary on-camera feud between Vidal and Mailer over what Vidal had written about the latter prompting Mailer to say: "I've had to smell your works from time to time.

His most widely regarded social novel was Myra Breckinridge; his best known historical novels included Julian Burr and Lincoln. In addition to this he characterised the United States as a decaying empire from the 1980s onwards. " Ben-Hur won the Academy Award for Best Picture.