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
talent mature ifs
Precocious talents mature slowly if at all.
adjectives homosexual persons
The word heterosexual is an adjective, the word homosexual is an adjective. They describe an activity. Of course there's a homosexual activity; of course there's a heterosexual activity. But there's no homosexual person. There's no heterosexual person. Everybody is everything.
people television ends
Television is a great leveler. You always end up sounding like the people who ask the questions.
games dies
Then die. We must all do that. But die, as they say, game.
order way
Religions are manipulated in order to serve those who govern society and not the other way around.
youth type my-own
I was never my own type so I completely missed my beauty all through my youth.
winning next smugness
Next to "I win," "I told you so" are the sweetest words.
enemy way
Never offend an enemy in a small way.
presidential clubs ifs
If you're not part of that club, as I certainly am not, you are not presidential.
country people enemy
Only a country that is based upon an extremely primitive religion, which is Christianity, I am a devoted enemy of monotheism in all of its forms, could have come with a categorizing of people as one thing or the other.
block men media
USA belongs to a handful of men who also control the media. Look at General Electric. It produces nuclear weapons for the Pentagon and also owns the NBC News cable channel, which is a very sophisticated censure apparatus, intrinsic to the system. It's genius. It's like an electronic cage around the nation which blocks information from getting through.
sex believe thinking
I'm devoted to promiscuity, and always have been. I believe the more you do, the better it is for you. I'm a great health nut, and sex is, I think, absolutely marvelous for the whole system; tones you up.
party wings two
Heaven's sakes, there's only one party which I call the Property Party. It's got two wings. One is called the "Republican" and one is called "Democratic." It is the same party so it makes no difference whether a Democrat's elected or a Republican's elected. The ownership remains the same.
want seasons denied
What we are is seldom what we want to be, while what we want to be is either denied us or changes with the seasons.