More from Gore Vidal
After adolescence, if one’s life is sufficiently interesting, the desire to tell oneself stories diminishes.
Gore VidalGore Vidal Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.
Gore VidalGore Vidal Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.
Gore VidalGore Vidal My father had lifelong contempt for politicians.
Gore VidalGore Vidal The behaviour of President Bush on 11 September certainly gives rise to not unnatural suspicions.
Gore VidalGore Vidal Remember, I’m West Point, where I was born. My father went there.
Gore VidalGore Vidal Does one ever read a politician’s books?
Gore VidalGore Vidal I know a lot of the Annapolis breed.
Gore VidalGore Vidal To get people to do needed things is the perennial hard task of government, not to mention of religion and philosophy.
Gore VidalGore Vidal Jews, blacks and homosexuals are despised by the Christian and Communist majorities of East and West. Also, as a result of the invention of Israel, Jews can now count on the hatred of the Islamic world.
Gore VidalGore Vidal In the German concentration camps, Jews wore yellow stars while homosexuals wore pink lambdas.
Gore VidalGore Vidal Europe began as the relatively empty, uncivilized Wild West of Asia; then the Western Hemisphere became the Wild West of Europe. Now the sun has set in our West and risen once more in the East.
Gore VidalGore Vidal Americans have no idea of the extent of their government’s mischief… the number of military strikes we have made unprovoked, against other countries, since 1947 is more than 250.
Gore VidalGore Vidal If you are a Representative and want to be a Senator, you must be careful not to do anything which might upset the various forces you need to harness to get elected.
Gore VidalGore Vidal The Turner Diaries’ is a racist daydream by a former physics teacher writing under the pseudonym Andrew Macdonald.
Gore VidalGore Vidal On September 5, 1774, forty-five of the weightiest colonial men formed the First Continental Congress at Philadelphia.
Gore VidalGore Vidal
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Shilpa GoelShilpa Goel Some days, you will be close to the finish line and still not make it.
Sonia SabnisSonia Sabnis Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
Bell HooksBell Hooks I separated someplace for each person in my heart, But she claimed to be the owner of it.
Moses AlexanderMoses Alexander Modern-day love stories are born not out of love, but a tired mind and a restless heart.
Puneet MehraPuneet Mehra Forcing things only creates more tension in the mind. Let go.
Ayaka HaseAyaka Hase It doesn’t take courage to find peace in the arms of destiny. It takes faith.
Anamika GargAnamika Garg I can’t wait to collect memories from every corner of the earth to splash in the vastness of this beautiful world.
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I felt his eyes devour me as i moved around the room. He assessed me head to toe without blinking, and a hot ache shivered through me. A kiss would’ve been less intimate.
Becca FitzpatrickBecca Fitzpatrick Survival is my primary instinct…it’s out of my control. It’s stronger than me. It’s an outside force, a voice that says ‘do this for your life or it will devour you.’
Grace JonesGrace Jones …like a predator about to devour the target.
Alan ParryAlan Parry I want to devour you with my eyes, and tell you over and over that you’ve never been so beautiful.
Alain DelonAlain Delon For age but tastes of pleasures youth devours.
John DrydenJohn Dryden Devour me and let me feel your every move.
Emma LouiseEmma Louise Let your dream devour your life, not your life devour your dream.
Antoine de Saint-ExuperyAntoine de Saint-Exupery
