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
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.
war rights government
The U.S. Bill of Rights is being steadily eroded, with two million telephone calls tapped, 30 million workers under electronic surveillance, and, says the author, countless Americans harassed by a government that wages spurious wars against drugs and terrorism.
savages
Vitriolic really is personal. I am vitriolic. I am savage.
unique men two
To hear two American men congratulating each other on being heterosexual is one of the most chilling experiences - and unique to the United States. You don't hear two Italians sitting around complimenting each other because they actually like to go to bed with women. The American is hysterical about his manhood.
knowing knowing-who-you-are style
Style...is knowing who you are...
wise art love-is
The malady of civilized man is his knowledge of death. The good artist, like the wise man, addresses himself to life and invests with his private vision the deeds and thoughts of men. The creation of a work of art, like an act of love, is our one small 'yes' at the center of a vast 'no'.
together inability disaster
By 1948, the Italians had begun to pull themselves together, demonstrating once more their astonishing ability to cope with disaster which is so perfectly balanced by their absolute inability to deal with success
politician believer improvisation
In a society like ours, politics is improvisation. To the artful dodger rather than the true believer goes the prize.
revival legislature states
I'd like to see a revival of state legislatures, in which I am a true Jeffersonian.