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
bottom civilized country states united
The United States is the only civilized country in the world to class its teachers at the bottom of the social scale.
george
Didn't George Washington say, 'He who controls Afghanistan will carry New Jersey?'
theorist
I'm not a conspiracy theorist - I'm a conspiracy analyst.
religion
Some have deplored Lincoln's indifference to Christianity. But it was not religion, it was religiosity that put him off.
critics few literary print united york
I can't name three first-rate literary critics in the United States. I'm told there are a few hidden away at universities, but they don't print them in 'The New York Times.'
roosevelt
When I say 'president,' I still mean Roosevelt - wisely, I think.
bill invent means war wartime
To invent a war means that you've become a wartime president, and you can suspend much if not all of the Bill of Rights.
anywhere known memoir near truth
I've yet to read a memoir by anyone I've known at all well that came anywhere near to the truth.
army atrocities french referring sartre time victim
It is true, as Sartre once wrote, referring to French Army atrocities in Algeria, that the real tragedy in our time is that any of us can be, interchangeably, victim or torturer.
admiral arthur based coup days enjoyed jack kennedy later military plans thriller white
Jack Kennedy very much enjoyed Fletcher Knebel's thriller 'Seven Days in May,' later a film. The story: a jingo based on the real-life Admiral Arthur Radford plans a military coup to take over the White House.
human ought time
The human race is plainly nothing in eternity, but to us, in time, it is everything and ought not to die.
hear surprised
A friend was surprised to hear me say that there was not one moment of my past that I would like to relive.
fascinated
I cannot remember when I was not fascinated by Henry Adams.
unbearable
What I am is something unbearable for the world of journalism and the world of cliches. I'm a realist.