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
invention process equal
Nothing that Shakespeare ever invented was to equal Lincoln's invention of himself and, in the process, us.
writing icy said
I have begun writing what I have said I'd never write, a memoir ("I am not my own subject," I used to say with icy superiority).
party wings two
I have been saying for the some time now that America has only one party - the property party. It's the party of big corporation, the party of money. It has two right wings; one is Democrat and the other is Republican.
views media oil
The same people own the media that own the White House that own the Congress that own the oil fields. They all work together to give a false view of the world to the American people.
jesus names people
Once people get hung up on theology, they've lost sanity forever. More people have been killed in the name of Jesus Christ than any other name in the history of the world.
war thinking chinese
I think the Chinese will say the hell with you and pull their money out of the United States. That's the end of our wars.
mistake hero thinking
Don't ever make the mistake with people like me thinking we are looking for heroes. There aren't any and if there were, they would be killed immediately. I'm never surprised by bad behaviour. I expect it.
giving-up sky religion
This separation was absolute in our original Republic. But the sky-godders do not give up easily. In the 1950s they actually got the phrase In God We Trust onto the currency, in direct violation of the First Amendment.
disaster minors majors
Those who have not undergone minor disasters are usually being held in reserve for something major
zoos couple house
When you are brought up in a zoo, you know what's going on in the monkey house. You see a couple of monkeys loose and one is President and one is Vice President, you know it's trouble. Monkeys make trouble.
flower believe care
I do not much care for nature, and believe that flowers belong in vases rather than loose and untidy on the ground.
matter ends found
God, or what have you, will not be found at the far end of a syllogism, no matter how brilliantly phrased or conceived.
deny
I don't deny or affirm anything. I'm not very personal.
two trying balance
...I'm no longer the scales most lovers are, weighing the deeds and gifts and treasures proffered against those received or stolen from the other, trying always to bring into fatal balance two separate things.