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
capital classical death hour offense speculate
In classical times, it was a capital offense to speculate upon the hour of a king's death or upon the identity of his successor.
death dying world
To bring into the world an unwanted human being is as antisocial an act as murder.
death moving dying
I’m not sentimental about anything. Life flows by, and you flow with it or you don’t. Move on and move out.
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.
campaign eager fill goes hopes might nearly
Nearly everyone who goes into a campaign is not only eager for the place he hopes to fill but for what might come after.
colonial formed men
On September 5, 1774, forty-five of the weightiest colonial men formed the First Continental Congress at Philadelphia.