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
media manipulation population
Americans are not only a less homogenous population than we were when we were 3 million ex-colonists, but we're less educated. On top of that, we have constant misinformation and manipulation by media.
envy facts american-life
Envy is the central fact of American life.
should-have missing lessons
Miss Rand now tells us that what we have thought was right is really wrong. The lesson should have read: One for one and none for all.
practice heterosexuality-is people
We're supposed to procreate and society, god knows, is ferocious on the subject. Heterosexuality is considered such a great and natural good that you have to execute people and put them in prison if they don't practice this glorious act.
president worship
That peculiarly American religion, President-worship.
liars believe mad
Celebrities are invariably celebrity-mad, just as liars always believe liars.
stupid people not-stupid
The people are not stupid, but they are totally misinformed.
sex
As one gets older, litigation replaces sex.
two brain legs
Everybody has two legs, two lobes to the brain which is why we tend to be interested in symmetry, always balancing things.
matter contradiction unnoticed
In matters of faith, inconvenient evidence is always suppressed while contradictions go unnoticed.
fate cards
Before the cards that one is dealt by life are the cards that fate has dealt: one's family.
sex grief thinking
Nothing is durable, I think anybody who thinks sex is durable is going to have a lot of grief.
eye men would-be
A superficial education would be worse than none. But a full education would open every man's eyes to the nature of human existence.
desire pursuit fragments
Where there is no desire or pursuits, there is no wholeness. But there are satisfying lesser states, fragments.