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
pain giving choices
Democracy is supposed to give you the feeling of choice, like Painkiller X and Painkiller Y. But they're both just aspirin.
atheist religion born-again
I'm a born - again atheist.
telling-the-truth journalist
a writer must always tell the truth (unless he's a journalist)
children book grandmother
I was taught to read by my grandmother. Central to her method was a tale of unnatural love called 'The Duck and the Kangaroo'. Then, because my grandfather, Senator Gore, was blind, I was required early on to read grown-up books to him, mostly constitutional law and, of course, the Congressional Record. The later continence of my style is a miracle, considering those years of piping the additional remarks of Mr. Borah of Idaho.
grandma grandmother grandchildren
Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild.
war years harry-truman
I'm a true reactionary. Like all patricians, I'd like to restore the original republic, which we lost 40 years ago when Harry Truman imposed the national security state on us, which has kept us at war, hot or cold, for almost half a century, and it's got us $4 trillion into debt.
drama writing genius
A talent for drama is not a talent for writing, but is ability to articulate human relationships.
education teaching beer
Teaching has ruined more American novelists than drink.
inspirational want needs
Ideally, the writer needs no audience other than the few who understand that it is immodest and greedy to want more.
adjectives homosexual persons
The word heterosexual is an adjective, the word homosexual is an adjective. They describe an activity. Of course there's a homosexual activity; of course there's a heterosexual activity. But there's no homosexual person. There's no heterosexual person. Everybody is everything.
government liberty libertarian
Terrorism is a direct response to the crimes our government has committed against foreigners (besides which, the actual terrorists are within our own government)
law government drug
If [drugs] didn't exist, our government would have to invent them, the better to enact laws aimed at keeping the citizens "sinless and obedient."
gay rights black
Obviously I'm in favor of protecting the rights of everybody: gay, black, women, what have you, American Indians.
stupidity fool oblivious
The fool is often oblivious of his own gaucherie.