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
answers problem ten
The problem with most Americans is that they don't like any question that takes more than ten seconds to answer.
believe doors way
I was brought up to believe that what is out-of-doors should stay there and not be encouraged in any way.
talent enough
Having no talent is no longer enough.
constitution worship
Americans worship the Constitution but do not observe it.
country political my-family
My family helped start [this country], we've been in political life ... since the 1690s, and I have a very possessive sense about this country.
france logical hypothesis
France is a nation devoted to the false hypothesis on which it then builds marvelously logical structures.
memories bridges acting
Movie acting, I later realized, reminds me of contract bridge. Each requires the same concentration, intense short-term memory, and obliviousness to everything else until the last trump is called - or whatever it is they do.
class majority problem
As Brooks Adams put it, the sole problem of our ruling class is whether to coerce or to bribe the powerless majority.
people stupidity maintaining
There are a great many people who have a vested interest in maintaining the stupidity of the American public.
eye men would-be
A superficial education would be worse than none. But a full education would open every man's eyes to the nature of human existence.
may victim executioners
Anybody, at any time, may equally find himself victim or executioner.
clever thinking years
How to get people to vote against their interests and to really think against their interests is very clever. It's the cleverest ruling class that I have ever come across in history. It's been two hundred years at it. It's superb.
country new-york real
It was a pity that movies and live TV left New York for Hollywood. London theater, movies, television - until (Britain's) money ran out - were always better than ours since the city was the political capital of the country, as well as the artistic and literary one. In L.A. we've always been slightly sealed off from real life. It's no accident that two of our most interesting directors, Woody Allen and Bob Altman, are more or less settled in the real world.
lying father son
But women are always attracted to power. I do not think there could ever be a conqueror so bloody that most women would not willingly lie with him in the hope of bearing a son who would be every bit as ferocious as the father.