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
country war grief
Since there is no system of public education, the great majority of my fellow citizens is frighteningly ignorant. They have no idea where Iraq is. They accept as the gospel whatever the government tells them. Good grief, any other normal country would have been against the Iraq war! But we live in an abnormal country, governed by experts in deceptive advertising.
sex grief thinking
Nothing is durable, I think anybody who thinks sex is durable is going to have a lot of grief.
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.
gore household known life raised senator thomas
I was raised in the Washington household of my grandfather Senator Thomas P. Gore of Oklahoma, and have known politicians intimately all my life.