Gore Vidal
Gore Vidal
Gore Vidalwas an American writerand a public intellectual known for his patrician manner, epigrammatic wit, and polished style of writing...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth3 October 1925
CityWest Point, NY
CountryUnited States of America
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From April 1775 to July 1776, the undeclared war between England and its American colonies smoldered, flared up, appeared to sputter out... It was hardly, ever, a mass rebellion.
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I was raised in the Washington household of my grandfather Senator Thomas P. Gore of Oklahoma, and have known politicians intimately all my life.
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I don't even read most reviews, unless there is a potential lawsuit on view.
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Nearly everyone who goes into a campaign is not only eager for the place he hopes to fill but for what might come after.
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On September 5, 1774, forty-five of the weightiest colonial men formed the First Continental Congress at Philadelphia.
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Since we have literally targeted our enemies, the Pentagon assumes that, sooner or later, rogues will take out our cities, presumably from spaceships.
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McCain is significant in the sense that he has no significance at all on any subject.
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My family is Southern. I'm used to Bill Clintons.
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To get people to do needed things is the perennial hard task of government, not to mention of religion and philosophy.
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You cannot deprive somebody of life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, because that is a right - constitutional right.
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For certain people, after fifty, litigation takes the place of sex
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It's odd to meet a rather elderly man who says, 'I've been reading you all my life.' It makes you feel a slight chill.
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It makes no difference whom you vote for -- the two parties are really one party representing four percent of the people.
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That is New York. I pointed to the waterfront just ahead as if the city were mine.