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
government class people
The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.
sex grief thinking
Nothing is durable, I think anybody who thinks sex is durable is going to have a lot of grief.
party two differences
It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four percent of the people.
country people united-states
The United States was founded by the brightest people in the country — and we haven't seen them since.
children parent forever
All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.
imagine affair macabre
Can you imagine having a love affair going on and on decade after decade? Macabre.
war army practice
We have been at war almost constantly since the last century. And it has not helped our institutions. Congress no longer represents the people. The courts do not practice justice any more. The armies never stop playing at being the policemen of the world and of oil.
sarcastic sarcasm cynicism
A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.
politics united-states remember
We are the United States of Amnesia, we learn nothing because we remember nothing.
italian paris generations
The best novelist of my generation is an Italian living in Paris, still working and improving - Italo Calvino.
government people done
Our rulers for more than half a century have made sure that we are never to be told the truth about anything that our government has done to other people, not to mention our own.
two trying balance
...I'm no longer the scales most lovers are, weighing the deeds and gifts and treasures proffered against those received or stolen from the other, trying always to bring into fatal balance two separate things.
average freedom-of-speech liberty
For the average American, freedom of speech is simply the freedom to repeat what everyone else is saying and no more.
stupid people not-stupid
The people are not stupid, but they are totally misinformed.