“Gore is a man without an unconscious.”

—  Italo Calvino

On friend and author Gore Vidal, as quoted in "GORE VIDAL, 1925-2012 : Prolific, Elegant, Acerbic Writer" in The New York Times (1 August 2012) http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/01/books/gore-vidal-elegant-writer-dies-at-86.html?pagewanted=all

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Italian journalist and writer of short stories and novels 1923–1985

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