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
becomes delicate
It is always a delicate matter, when a friend or acquaintance becomes president.
I'm not paranoid, no. I'm different in that I have enemies. Very real ones.
theorist
I'm not a conspiracy theorist - I'm a conspiracy analyst.
elected obama
I was like everyone else when Obama was elected - optimistic.
bond movies remember
I remember the Bond movies when I was a child. They were silent then.
anyone
I never said I was gay, because I don't think anyone is.
boys girls
Boys don't like girls around when they do boy things.
george
Didn't George Washington say, 'He who controls Afghanistan will carry New Jersey?'
agree both christ life marx
Both Marx and Christ agree that in this life, a right action is consideration for the welfare of others.
bottom civilized country states united
The United States is the only civilized country in the world to class its teachers at the bottom of the social scale.
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World War II made prosperous the United States, which had been undergoing a depression for a dozen years, and made very rich those magnates and their managers who govern the republic - with many a wink - in the people's name.
bad good society
While campaigning, I got to know many high-school teachers, and let me say that the good ones are the unsung heroes of our society, and the bad ones are the gravediggers.
behaves complete danger society states thinks united
Walter Lippmann suggests that the United States behaves like a society which thinks it is complete with no more to accomplish; that, for better or worse, we are what we are, and the only danger to our comfort is external.
money perhaps power russia sufficient talks ten twenty
The Pentagon talks about our power to 'overkill' Russia ten times, twenty times, perhaps forty-eight times. For my tax money, it is sufficient to overkill them once.