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
men bird tree
To a man, ornithologists are tall, slender, and bearded so that they can stand motionless for hours, imitating kindly trees, as they watch for birds.
hygiene literature world
Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made.
funny literature television
Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they're scraping the top of the barrel.
views matter comedy
What begins with comedy ends with comedy... in my short view of the matter.
book world may
That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers.
president manhattan loyal
That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president.
country oil people
Now you have people in Washington who have no interest in the country at all. They're interested in their companies, their corporations grabbing Caspian oil.
running mean home
I think we're going to have to accept the fact the U.S. is off the world map. We are not a great player any longer. And when we come home - as we will have to do because we've run out of money - we will discover that Argentine debts means Argentine politics. And on that note, you can wake up in the middle of the night.
sex writing giving
Sex is. There is nothing more to be done about it. Sex builds no roads, writes no novels and sex certainly gives no meaning to anything in life but itself.
business teenager literature
Until the rise of American advertising, it never occurred to anyone anywhere in the world that the teenager was a captive in a hostile world of adults.
ignorance boredom may
I have always regarded as a stroke of good fortune that I was not born or brought up in a small American town; they may be the backbone of the nation, but they are also the backbone of ignorance, bigotry, and boredom, all in vast quantities.
harmony killing lennon
anyone who sings about love and harmony and life [john lennon] is dangerous to someone who sings about death and killing and subduing [Nixon]
inspirational want needs
Ideally, the writer needs no audience other than the few who understand that it is immodest and greedy to want more.
stupidity fool oblivious
The fool is often oblivious of his own gaucherie.