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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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Ernest Hemingway
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American history has fallen more and more into the hands of academics.
Gore Vidal
History
More
More And More
Academics
Fallen
American
Hands
American History
What I like least about myself is my belligerence.
Gore Vidal
Myself
About
Like
Least
Gossip is conversation about people.
Gore Vidal
Conversation
People
Gossip
About
You hear all this whining going on, 'Where are our great writers?' The thing I might feel doleful about is: Where are the readers?
Gore Vidal
Great
You
Our
About
Writers
Feel
Readers
Hear
Going
Where
Whining
Might
Thing
For the record, I'm a Second World War veteran and served in the Pacific.
Gore Vidal
War
World
Veteran
Record
Pacific
Served
Second
World War
Second World War
The human race is plainly nothing in eternity, but to us, in time, it is everything and ought not to die.
Gore Vidal
Time
Nothing
Ought
Everything
Die
Human
Race
Plainly
Eternity
Us
Human Race
There is a terrible garrulousness in most American writing, legacy of the old Frontier.
Gore Vidal
Writing
Old
Most
Terrible
Legacy
American
Frontier
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
Myself
Money
Car
Typed
Pleasure
Possible
Finding
Able
Yachts
Greatest
Making
Making Money
Greatest Pleasure
Many
Started
Buying
Drafts
What other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke?
Gore Vidal
Culture
Seen
Joke
Other
Someone
Could
Like
Produced
Hemingway
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