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Gore Vidal , születési nevén Eugene Luther Vidal, amerikai író és politikus, időnként színész. Néha írói álneveket használt, ezek az Edgar Box, Cameron Kay és Catherine Everard. Az Amerikai Egyesült Államokban, a New York állambéli West Pointban született. 1946-tól publikált, elsősorban történelmi témájú műveket. 1970-től 2004-ig felváltva az olaszországi Ravellóban és Hollywoodban lakott élettársával, akinek halála után Los Angelesbe költözött.

Családja a híres politikusokat adó Kennedy-klán rokona. Nagyapja, Thomas Pryor Gore Oklahoma szenátora volt. Szintén rokona – bár távolabbi – az egykori demokrata párti alelnök és elnökjelölt, Al Gore. Vidal magát a „Gore-dinasztia fekete bárányának” nevezte, ami radikális kritikája a USA politikai életének. Az amerikai expanzív erőpolitika rendíthetetlen ellenzője volt. George W. Busht az „ország legostobább emberének” nevezte már 2000-ben, Barack Obama pedig szerinte „túlképzett” a feladathoz, aki „nem ismeri fel, mennyire sötét, tudatlan a közönsége”. Amerikát intellektuális réteg nélküli, gyors ütemben rothadó társadalomként jellemezte. Wikipedia  

✵ 3. október 1925 – 31. július 2012
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“We must always remember that the police are recruited from the criminal classes.”

Gore Vidal

As quoted by Dick Cavett, in &quot;The Swimmers&quot; http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/03/books/review/Cavett-t.html?_r=1&amp;pagewanted=print&amp;oref=slogin, The New York Times (3 June 2007) <br class="br">2000s

“To speak today of a famous novelist is like speaking of a famous cabinetmaker or speedboat designer. Adjective is inappropriate to noun.”

Gore Vidal

Forrás: 1990s, Screening History (1992), Ch. 1: The Prince and the Pauper, pp.2-3

“Religions are manipulated in order to serve those who govern society and not the other way around.”

Gore Vidal

"Sex Is Politics" (1979)
1980s, The Second American Revolution (1983)

“Precocious talents mature slowly if at all.”

Gore Vidal

"F. Scott Fitzgerald's Case" (1980)
1980s, The Second American Revolution (1983)

“We're supposed to procreate and society, god knows, is ferocious on the subject. Heterosexuality is considered such a great and natural good that you have to execute people and put them in prison if they don't practice this glorious act.”

Gore Vidal

&quot;American psyche&quot; http://arts.independent.co.uk/books/features/article171192.ece, extract from interview with Anthony Clare on BBC Radio 4, &quot;In the Psychiatrist&#x27;s Chair&quot;; published in The Independent (8 October 2000). <br class="br">2000s

“Don’t ever make the mistake with people like me thinking we are looking for heroes. There aren’t any and if there were, they would be killed immediately. I’m never surprised by bad behaviour. I expect it.”

Gore Vidal

The Times Online http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/the_way_we_live/article6854221.ece, (30 September 2009) <br class="br">2000s

“…American society, literary or lay, tends to be humorless. What other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke?”

Gore Vidal

"Edmund Wilson: This Critic and This Gin and These Shoes"
1990s, United States - Essays 1952-1992 (1992)

“I can understand companionship. I can understand bought sex in the afternoon, but I cannot understand the love affair.”

Gore Vidal

Quoted in profile by Martin Amis, "Mr. Vidal: Unpatriotic Gore" (1977) in The Moronic Inferno (1987)
1970s

“Modern Christianity is a encyclopedia of traditional superstition.”

Gore Vidal

Forrás: 1960s, Julian (1964), Chapter 5

“I have begun writing what I have said I'd never write, a memoir ("I am not my own subject," I used to say with icy superiority).”

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Preface http://www.threepennyreview.com/samples/vidal_su95.html <br class="br">1990s, The City and the Pillar and Seven Early Stories (1995)

“At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation, and prejudice.”

Gore Vidal

"Sex and the Law," Partisan Review (Summer 1965)
1970s, Homage to Daniel Shays : Collected Essays (1972)

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

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Preface to Reflections Upon a Sinking Ship http://books.google.com/books?id=LXFbAAAAMAAJ&amp;q=&amp;quot;There+is+something+about+a+bureaucrat+that+does+not+like+a+poem&amp;quot; (1969) <br class="br">Preface to Sex, Death, and Money http://books.google.com/books?id=54JBAAAAIAAJ&amp;q=&amp;quot;There+is+something+about+a+bureaucrat+that+does+not+like+a+poem&amp;quot; (1969) <br class="br">1960s