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
strange humans
Nothing human is finally calculable; even to ourselves we are strange.
self musings impressed
I have never been particularly impressed by the self centered musings of my fellow writers.
sarcastic book writing
Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either.
stars two orbit
We affect one another quite enough merely by existing. Whenever the stars cross, or is it comets? fragments pass briefly from one orbit to another. On rare occasions there is total collision, but most often the two simply continue without incident, neither losing more than a particle to the other, in passing.
views impossible life-is
Since no one can ever know for certain whether or not his own view of life is the correct one, it is absolutely impossible for him to know if someone else's is the wrong one.
war machines constitution
Congress no longer declares war or makes budgets. So that's the end of the constitution as a working machine.
united-states literature empires
On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.
world century
All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world.
money interesting more-money
The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.
real opposites want
I'm not for real revolutions, because they always bring you the opposite of what you want. You very seldom get what you want if you have a violent revolution.
deeds good-deeds
A good deed never goes unpunished.
philosophy evil perfect
Ayn Rand's 'philosophy' is nearly perfect in its immorality, which makes the size of her audience all the more ominous and symptomatic as we enter a curious new phase in our society.... To justify and extol human greed and egotism is to my mind not only immoral, but evil.
theatre needs reminders
The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.
wells true-wisdom knows
True wisdom is to know the extent of what you don't know quite as well as you know what you do know.