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
cannot deprive happiness life pursuit somebody
You cannot deprive somebody of life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, because that is a right - constitutional right.
government hard mention needed people perennial religion task
To get people to do needed things is the perennial hard task of government, not to mention of religion and philosophy.
educational race people
I regard monotheism as the greatest disaster ever to befall the human race. I see no good in Judaism, Christianity, or Islam - good people, yes, but any religion based on a single, well, frenzied and virulent god, is not as useful to the human race as, say, Confucianism, which is not a religion but an ethical and educational system.
people political voting
Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.
acne phases altruism
Altruism is a brief phase through which some adolescents must pass. It is rather like acne. Happily, as with acne, only a few are permanently scarred.
democracy earth republic
We should stop going around babbling about how we're the greatest democracy on earth, when we're not even a democracy. We are a sort of militarised republic.
mind
The unfed mind devours itself.
god country father
The great unmentionable evil at the center of our culture is monotheism. From a barbaric Bronze Age text known as the Old Testament, three anti-human religions have evolved -- Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. These are sky-god religions. They are, literally, patriarchal -- God is the Omnipotent Father -- hence the loathing of women for 2,000 years in those countries afflicted by the sky-god and his earthly male delegates.
writing goes-on television
I have no television to go on so I get a lot of writing done. That's my substitute for television.
stars son hollywood
I'm in Hollywood right now, surrounded by nothing but the sons and grandsons of movie stars.
beautiful four common
The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.
children parent forever
All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.
politics united-states remember
We are the United States of Amnesia, we learn nothing because we remember nothing.
failure envy political
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.