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Gore Vidal
American
Novelist
Born:
Oct 3
,
1925
Died:
Jul 31
,
2012
About
American
Life
People
World
You
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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
Man
Trees
Birds
Imitating
Slender
Kindly
Bearded
Hours
Tall
Motionless
Stand
Watch
I never said I was gay, because I don't think anyone is.
Gore Vidal
Gay
Think
Never
Because
Said
Anyone
Everything's wrong on Wikipedia.
Gore Vidal
Wikipedia
Everything
Wrong
I never wanted to be a writer. I mean, that's the last thing I wanted.
Gore Vidal
Writer
Never
Wanted
Mean
Thing
Last
When I say 'president,' I still mean Roosevelt - wisely, I think.
Gore Vidal
Think
President
Say
Wisely
Still
Mean
Roosevelt
Actually, I can't remember when I was not writing.
Gore Vidal
Writing
Remember
Remember When
Actually
Between fourteen and nineteen, I must have begun and abandoned six novels.
Gore Vidal
Nineteen
Abandoned
Must
Between
Begun
Six
Novels
Fourteen
My family is Southern. I'm used to Bill Clintons.
Gore Vidal
Family
Southern
Bill
Used
I can't name three first-rate literary critics in the United States. I'm told there are a few hidden away at universities, but they don't print them in 'The New York Times.'
Gore Vidal
Three
Few
States
Hidden
Critics
New
Name
Print
First-Rate
Times
York
New York
New York Times
Literary
Them
United
Away
United States
Universities
I don't even read most reviews, unless there is a potential lawsuit on view.
Gore Vidal
Unless
Lawsuit
Potential
Most
Read
Reviews
View
Even
Remember, I'm West Point, where I was born. My father went there.
Gore Vidal
Remember
Father
Born
Point
West
West Point
Where
Boys don't like girls around when they do boy things.
Gore Vidal
Girl
Like
Around
Boy
Things
Like the TV networks, once our government has a hit, it will be repeated over and over again.
Gore Vidal
Government
Will
Our
Once
TV
Networks
Over
Like
Repeated
Hit
Again
'The Turner Diaries' is a racist daydream by a former physics teacher writing under the pseudonym Andrew Macdonald.
Gore Vidal
Teacher
Physics
Writing
Macdonald
Andrew
Daydream
Diaries
Pseudonym
Former
Turner
As a schoolboy, I read most of Carl Sandburg's six-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln.
Gore Vidal
Abraham
Abraham Lincoln
Schoolboy
Most
Read
Lincoln
Biography
During the late '50s, I had worked on the script of Ben-Hur in an office next to that of the producer Sam Zimbalist.
Gore Vidal
Late
Had
Office
Sam
Script
Worked
Producer
Next
Of all recent presidents, Clinton was expected to behave the most sensibly in economic matters. He understood how the economy works. But because he had used various dodges to stay out of the Vietnam War, he came to office ill at ease with the military.
Gore Vidal
War
Matters
Military
Presidents
Ease
Out
Stay
Various
Economic
Had
He
Economy
Most
Because
How
Understood
Came
Clinton
Office
Expected
Behave
Sensibly
Vietnam
Vietnam War
Used
Ill
Works
Recent
It is always a delicate matter, when a friend or acquaintance becomes president.
Gore Vidal
Matter
President
Delicate
Becomes
Always
Friend
Acquaintance
I was the most famous kid in the United States. That was 1936.
Gore Vidal
States
Kid
Most
Famous
United
United States
I hate nobody.
Gore Vidal
Hate
Nobody
He who is last had best laugh.
Gore Vidal
Best
Laugh
Had
He
Who
Last
What I am is something unbearable for the world of journalism and the world of cliches. I'm a realist.
Gore Vidal
World
Unbearable
Something
Journalism
Cliches
Am
Realist
Corporations must pay tax.
Gore Vidal
Pay
Corporations
Must
Tax
Having no contemporaries left means you cannot say, 'Well, so-and-so will like this,' which you do when you're younger. You realize there is no so-and-so anymore. You are your own so-and-so. There is a bleak side to it.
Gore Vidal
You
Will
Own
Side
Say
Having
Bleak
Like
Contemporaries
Well
Left
Anymore
Cannot
Which
Younger
Realize
Means
Your
Until very recently, the artist was a magician who did his magic in public view but kept himself and his effects a matter of mystery.
Gore Vidal
Matter
Magic
Magician
Mystery
Until
Himself
His
Effects
Very
Did
Artist
Public
View
Who
Kept
Recently
In the German concentration camps, Jews wore yellow stars while homosexuals wore pink lambdas.
Gore Vidal
Stars
Jews
Concentration
Pink
Yellow
German
Camps
While
Wore
Homosexuals
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