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
movie stars born
All Americans born between 1890 and 1945 wanted to be movie stars.
country war temper
You can only have a war with another country. You can't have a war with bad temper or a war against paranoids.
doors house lust
In large Victorian houses with many rooms and heavy doors, the occupants could be mysterious and exciting to one another in a way that those who live in rackety developments can never hope to be. Not even the lust of a Lord Byron could survive the fact of Levittown.
politician believer improvisation
In a society like ours, politics is improvisation. To the artful dodger rather than the true believer goes the prize.
believe trying politician
One of the most fascinating aspects of politician-watching is trying to determine to what extent any politician believes what he says.
space astronomy astronaut
Astronauts: rotarians in outer space.
people arrogant overwhelmed
Since I ought to be arrogant, impressed with my social position, overwhelmed by my beauty, therefore I am. Actually I was never my own type so I completely missed my beauty all through my youth. I have no social position and I stay away from what is known as society as much as possible. But people like to re-invent you, according to cliché.
vices explanation
The American vice is explanation.
environmental civilisation emissions
CO₂ emissions anywhere threaten civilisation everywhere.
people stores
People like to re-invent you, according to cliché. There are a lot of stores about me that really apply only to Capote or Mailer or somebody else. Everything is a mish mash.
men law century
It never occurred to any Enlightenment figure in the eighteenth century that law was not preferable to man.
writing thinking imagine
Write what you think, what you imagine, what you suspect!
people want enough
Private lives should be no business of the State. The State is bad enough as it is. It cannot educate or medicate or feed the people; it cannot do anything but kill the people. No State like that do we want prying into our private lives.
evil greed mind
To justify and extol human greed and egotism is to my mind not only immoral, but evil.