Gore Vidal

"Love and hate are so confused in your savage minds and the vibrations of the one are so very like those of the other that I can't always distinguish. You see, we neither love nor hate in my world. We simply have hobbies."

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Source: How guest Hans Christian Andersen destroyed his friendship with Dickens by Vanessa Thorpe, www.theguardian.com. September 9, 2017.

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Gore Vidal

Gore Vidal

Writer, Essayist, Playwright

Gore Vidal was an American writer and public intellectual known for his provocative essays and novels, including 'Myra Breckinridge'.

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