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
prevent shut
To prevent the theft of 'Ben-Hur's sets, guards were prowling the back lot long after production had been shut down.
careful sides thorough
He (Donald) is thorough and very careful not to take sides when there's insufficient evidence,
mccain
McCain is significant in the sense that he has no significance at all on any subject.
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.
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He will lie even when it is inconvenient: the sign of the true artist.
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I like the way you always manage to state the obvious with a sense of real discovery.
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Since we have literally targeted our enemies, the Pentagon assumes that, sooner or later, rogues will take out our cities, presumably from spaceships.
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The individual's desire to dominate his environment is not a desirable trait in a society which every day grows more and more confining.
edition
The first grown-up book that I read on my own was a nineteenth-century edition of 'Tales from Livy' that I'd found in my grandfather's library.
colonial formed men
On September 5, 1774, forty-five of the weightiest colonial men formed the First Continental Congress at Philadelphia.
fallen hands history
American history has fallen more and more into the hands of academics.
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I was raised in the Washington household of my grandfather Senator Thomas P. Gore of Oklahoma, and have known politicians intimately all my life.
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Temperamentally, I am suspicious of belonging to anything. When I ran for office, I debated seriously whether or not to run as an independent because I was not eager to be saddled with the Democratic Party, because any party label is committing.
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Every generation gets the Tiny Tim it deserves.