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Quotes from United States - Essays 1952–1992 — Gore Vidal

1925–2012 United States

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World events are the work of individuals whose motives are often frivolous, even casual.

United States - Essays 1952–1992 (1992)

Nothing that Shakespeare ever invented was to equal Lincoln's invention of himself and, in the process, us.

United States - Essays 1952–1992 (1992)

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

United States - Essays 1952–1992 (1992)

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