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Gore Vidal

Gore Vidal

American Novelist

Born: Oct 3, 1925

Died: Jul 31, 2012

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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. Gore Vidal

Both Marx and Christ agree that in this life, a right action is consideration for the welfare of others. Gore Vidal

Life Welfare Christ Action Others Consideration Both Marx Agree Right

Never have children, only grandchildren. Gore Vidal

Only Never Children Grandchildren

One is sorry one could not have taken both branches of the road. But we were not allotted multiple selves. Gore Vidal

Sorry Both Could Taken Road Were Branches Selves Multiple

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

Genius Andy Andy Warhol Only Known Warhol Ever

I was like everyone else when Obama was elected - optimistic. Gore Vidal

Else Everyone Everyone Else Obama Like Optimistic Elected

Envy is the central fact of American life. Gore Vidal

Life Envy Fact American Central American Life

Because there is no cosmic point to the life that each of us perceives on this distant bit of dust at the galaxy's edge... there is all the more reason for us to maintain in proper balance what we have here. Because there is nothing else. No thing. This is it. And quite enough, all in all. Gore Vidal

The media can't get anything straight. Gore Vidal

Get Anything Straight Media

Obama just came swiftly out of nowhere, which was a relief to those of us who care about the Republic, and at first he seemed a very good thing. Gore Vidal

I think there is an instinct out there to rid us of our masters. Gore Vidal

Think Our Out Instinct Masters Us Rid

In August 1961, I visited President Kennedy at Hyannis Port. The Berlin Wall was going up, and he was about to begin a huge military buildup - reluctantly, or so he said, as he puffed on a cigar liberated by a friend from Castro's Cuba. Gore Vidal

History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true. Gore Vidal

Hope History Gossip Be True Past Nothing About True Might

A narcissist is someone better looking than you are. Gore Vidal

You Better Looking Someone Better Looking Narcissist Than

There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise. Gore Vidal

People Problem Would Solved Could Simply Advise Human Which

McCain is significant in the sense that he has no significance at all on any subject. Gore Vidal

Sense Significance Significant He Subject Any McCain

Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies. Gore Vidal

Me Something Friend Dies Whenever Little Succeeds

Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age. Gore Vidal

Age Sex Takes Middle Middle Age Place Litigation

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

Say Said Lot Being Mean Nouveau

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

September President President Bush Unnatural Rise Gives Behaviour Suspicions Bush Certainly

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

President Chase Retainer American Bank Manhattan American President Loyal

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

World Would Missed Century

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