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
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.
wise art love-is
The malady of civilized man is his knowledge of death. The good artist, like the wise man, addresses himself to life and invests with his private vision the deeds and thoughts of men. The creation of a work of art, like an act of love, is our one small 'yes' at the center of a vast 'no'.
order drug population
Drugs. If they did not exist our governors would have invented them in order to prohibit them and so make much of the population vulnerable to arrest, imprisonment, seizure of property, and so on.
men language loses
A babble of words that no one understands now fills the airwaves, and language loses all meaning as we sink slowly, mindlessly, into herstory rather than history because most rapists are men, aren't they?
weed flower criticism
Despite the warnings of other times, the impetuous and the confident continue their indiscriminate cultivation of weeds at the expense of occasional flowers.