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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The American high school graduate is two years behind his English, French or German counterpart; in Alabama, God knows how far behind.
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It is true, as Sartre once wrote, referring to French Army atrocities in Algeria, that the real tragedy in our time is that any of us can be, interchangeably, victim or torturer.
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After the French Revolution, the world money power shifted from Paris to London. For three generations, the British maintained an old-fashioned colonial empire, as well as a modern empire based on London's primacy in the money markets.
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Why not just eliminate the federal income tax?
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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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Between fourteen and nineteen, I must have begun and abandoned six novels.
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Every generation gets the Tiny Tim it deserves.
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Every country should have at least one King Farouk.
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Baseball is the favorite American sport because it's so slow. Any idiot can follow it. And just about any idiot can play it.
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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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I don't even read most reviews, unless there is a potential lawsuit on view.
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McCain is significant in the sense that he has no significance at all on any subject.
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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.