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Gore Vidal

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That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president.


— Gore Vidal


#american president #bank #chase #loyal #manhattan

The behaviour of President Bush on 11 September certainly gives rise to not unnatural suspicions.


— Gore Vidal


#bush #certainly #gives #president #president bush

The greatest pleasure when I started making money was not buying cars or yachts but finding myself able to have as many freshly typed drafts as possible.


— Gore Vidal


#able #buying #cars #drafts #finding

There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.


— Gore Vidal


#bureaucrat #does #like #poem #something

There's a lot to be said for being nouveau riche, and the Reagans mean to say it all.


— Gore Vidal


#lot #mean #nouveau #reagans #said

To a man, ornithologists are tall, slender, and bearded so that they can stand motionless for hours, imitating kindly trees, as they watch for birds.


— Gore Vidal


#birds #hours #imitating #kindly #man

Until the rise of American advertising, it never occurred to anyone anywhere in the world that the teenager was a captive in a hostile world of adults.


— Gore Vidal


#american #anyone #anywhere #captive #hostile

Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.


— Gore Vidal


#business #countries #faith #fiction #lost

It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true.


— Gore Vidal


#any #believe #exercise #fact #how

Democracy is supposed to give you the feeling of choice, like Painkiller X and Painkiller Y. But they're both just aspirin.


— Gore Vidal


#both #choice #democracy #feeling #give






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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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