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
average way different
We're the most captive nation of slaves that ever came along. The moral timidity of the average American is quite noticeable. Everybody's afraid to be thought in any way different from everyone else.
animal house might
Capote I truly loathed. The way you might loathe an animal. A filthy animal that has found its way into the house.
christian pain hate
Which other major religion is based on the Godhead incarnate being whipped, tacked to a cross, stabbed? Only the Marquis de Sade could have made up a sicker religion. It's no wonder that those brought up in such a culture hate life and enjoy inflicting pain. All societies are sick but some are sicker than others. Christian societies are certainly the sickest.
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
son men earth
Women are put on earth only to provide men with sons.
giving damn remembered
Who gives a damn about being remembered? That's really for amateurs.
world events individual
World events are the work of individuals whose motives are often frivolous, even casual.
knowing knowing-who-you-are style
Style...is knowing who you are...
real oysters sponges
The real writer learns nothing from life. He is more like an oyster or a sponge.
believe atheism i-believe
I believe it's my pastoral duty to convert friends to atheism.
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.
new-york war lying
They are longing for a war with Iran. Iran is no more a harm to us than was Iraq or Afghanistan. They invented an enemy, they tell lies, lies, lies. The New York Times goes along with their lies, lies, lies. And they don't stop. When the public that's lied to 30 times a day it's apt to believe the lies, is not it?
want american-writer
American writers want to be not good but great; and so are neither.
new-york writing worst
The New York Times is the worst in that hardly anybody can write English over there. Most of it reads like slight translations from the German.