American - Novelist | October 3, 1925 - July 31, 2012
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
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Remember, I'm West Point, where I was born. My father went there.
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I know a lot of the Annapolis breed.
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Every generation gets the Tiny Tim it deserves.
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Boys don't like girls around when they do boy things.
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I'm always an optimist!
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Like the TV networks, once our government has a hit, it will be repeated over and over again.
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In essence, Clinton's Anti-Terrorism Act would set up a national police force, over the long-dead bodies of the founders.
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What the Kinseyites and I had in common so long ago was the knowledge that homosexual and heterosexual behavior are natural to all mammals, and that what differs from individual to individual is the balance between these two complementary but not necessarily conflicted drives.
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Each youth betrays considerable anxiety about the wedding night ahead.
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To prevent the theft of 'Ben-Hur's sets, guards were prowling the back lot long after production had been shut down.
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Jack Kennedy very much enjoyed Fletcher Knebel's thriller 'Seven Days in May,' later a film. The story: a jingo based on the real-life Admiral Arthur Radford plans a military coup to take over the White House.
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