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Gore Vidal

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Love is a fan club with only two fans.


— Gore Vidal


#love

There is something about the state putting the power to bully into the hands of subnormal, sadistic apes that makes my blood boil.


— Gore Vidal


#politics #society #death

I wanted to be a politician and a movie star. But I was born a writer. If you're born that, you can't change it. You're going to do it whether you want to or not.~


— Gore Vidal


#writing-craft #change

In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you're a great writer, you must say that you are.


— Gore Vidal


#goes #great #great writer #hustler #loud

No one can ever love us quite so much as we love ourselves.


— Gore Vidal


#self-loving #love

The public is always relieved to find that once the chief officers of state are elected they do not sincerely want change.


— Gore Vidal


#politics #realism #change

Love it or loathe it, you can never leave it or lose it.


— Gore Vidal


#love

To turn life into words is to make life yours to do with as you please, instead of the other way round


— Gore Vidal


#writing #life

...,I have never visited any city in the world where I was not told that I just missed the golden age. I seem never to be on time." Cyrus Sitema


— Gore Vidal


#age

All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world.


— Gore Vidal


#i #missed #world #would






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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.

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