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
life stories
After adolescence, if one's life is sufficiently interesting, the desire to tell oneself stories diminishes.
family
My family is Southern. I'm used to Bill Clintons.
except
This is not at all bad, except as prose.
happened impression rather settles
In character, as it were, the writer settles for an impression of what happened rather than creating the sense of the thing happening.
blacks communist count despised east islamic jews result
Jews, blacks and homosexuals are despised by the Christian and Communist majorities of East and West. Also, as a result of the invention of Israel, Jews can now count on the hatred of the Islamic world.
campaign eager fill goes hopes might nearly
Nearly everyone who goes into a campaign is not only eager for the place he hopes to fill but for what might come after.
hold point unless
God, no. Unless you hold office, there's no point in being there.
famous united
I was the most famous kid in the United States. That was 1936.
abuse allowed although freedom money morals order paradox private public society
It is a paradox of the acquisitive society in which we now live that although private morals are regulated by law, the entrepreneur is allowed considerable freedom to use - and abuse - the public in order to make money.
countries dumb
As dumb as this administration is, they don't look ahead. They don't know where any countries are. They don't know how to make deals. They don't really know much about anything. There is no plan.
capital classical death hour offense speculate
In classical times, it was a capital offense to speculate upon the hour of a king's death or upon the identity of his successor.
corporate dominate encouraged masters plans serving states truth united
We are the United States of Amnesia, which is encouraged by a media that has no desire to tell us the truth about anything, serving their corporate masters who have other plans to dominate us.
eliminate
Why not just eliminate the federal income tax?
effects himself kept magician matter public until view
Until very recently, the artist was a magician who did his magic in public view but kept himself and his effects a matter of mystery.