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
enemy neighbor
One's neighbor is always the enemy. That is the nature of things.
father advice secret
Some of my father's fellow West Pointers once asked him why I turned out so well, his secret in raising me. And he said, "I never gave him any advice, and he never asked for any." We agreed on nothing, but we never quarreled once.
hygiene literature world
Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made.
trying reform fixed
I am a correctionist. If something is wrong in society, it must be fixed. At least one should try to fix it.
satire audience ifs
If satire is to be effective, the audience must be aware of the thing satirized.
truth certain unbelievable
There are certain truths so true that they are practically unbelievable.
gay deny persons
I deny that there's such a thing as a gay person. I deny there's such a thing as a heterosexual person.
price-tag careers california
When Ronald Reagan's career in show business came to an end, he was hired to impersonate, first, a California governor and then an American president who would reduce taxes for his employers, the Southern and Western New Rich, much of whose money came from the defence industries. There is nothing unusual about this arrangement. All recent presidents have had their price-tags.
mean nouveau-riche said
There's a lot to be said for being nouveau riche, and the Reagans mean to say it all.
funny sex two
There are two things you never turn down: sex and appearing on television.
conspiracy analysts theorists
I’m not a conspiracy theorist—I’m a conspiracy analyst,
names wish successors
I have been asked whether I wish to nominate a successor, an inheritor, a dauphin or delfino. I have decided to name Christopher Hitchens.
parallel-lives mines parallels
We've had parallel lives. And frankly, I prefer mine to his. I would not like to be George Bush.
moving presidential fever
When the Presidential virus attacks the system there is a tendency for the patient in his fever to move from the Right or the Left to the Center where the curative votes are.