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
careful sides thorough
He (Donald) is thorough and very careful not to take sides when there's insufficient evidence,
anyone care courage courageous journalist less says shrewd speaking
My father once said something very shrewd about me to a woman journalist who had told him how courageous she thought I was for always speaking my mind. My father said, 'If you couldn't care less what anyone says about you, then it's not courage.'
flower believe care
I do not much care for nature, and believe that flowers belong in vases rather than loose and untidy on the ground.
price-tag careers california
When Ronald Reagan's career in show business came to an end, he was hired to impersonate, first, a California governor and then an American president who would reduce taxes for his employers, the Southern and Western New Rich, much of whose money came from the defence industries. There is nothing unusual about this arrangement. All recent presidents have had their price-tags.
age care medical
At a certain age, you have to live near good medical care — if, that is, you're going to continue. You always have the option of not continuing, which, I fear, is sometimes nobler.
eliminate
Why not just eliminate the federal income tax?
government hard mention needed people perennial religion task
To get people to do needed things is the perennial hard task of government, not to mention of religion and philosophy.
fourteen
Between fourteen and nineteen, I must have begun and abandoned six novels.
tim tiny
Every generation gets the Tiny Tim it deserves.
country
Every country should have at least one King Farouk.
favorite follow sports
Baseball is the favorite American sport because it's so slow. Any idiot can follow it. And just about any idiot can play it.
cannot deprive happiness life pursuit somebody
You cannot deprive somebody of life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, because that is a right - constitutional right.
unless
I don't even read most reviews, unless there is a potential lawsuit on view.
mccain
McCain is significant in the sense that he has no significance at all on any subject.