“First coffee, then a bowel movement. Then the Muse joins me.”

—  Gore Vidal

"Gore Vidal," interview by Gerald Clarke (1974), The Paris Review Interviews: Writers at Work, 5th series (1981)
1970s

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American writer 1925–2012

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