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
president worship
That peculiarly American religion, President-worship.
war stupid fighting
We were to be forever at war with somebody. We were going to fight communism everywhere on earth even if it didn't threaten us. It was a holy war, just as we've made one on terrorism and Islam, equally stupid and equally irrelevant.
educational race people
I regard monotheism as the greatest disaster ever to befall the human race. I see no good in Judaism, Christianity, or Islam - good people, yes, but any religion based on a single, well, frenzied and virulent god, is not as useful to the human race as, say, Confucianism, which is not a religion but an ethical and educational system.
blood two greek
'Politics' is made up of two words, 'poli,' which is Greek for 'many,' and 'tics,' which are blood-sucking insects.
running country law
Country is run by... financial powers & corporate interests [who] send their lawyers to Congress to make laws so that they don't have to pay taxes
aerospace quite senator
I could be a lot happier. I could be the senator from Aerospace taking bribes, and be quite happy.
began life
I began life as an absolute monarchist - on condition, of course, that I be that monarch.
edition
The first grown-up book that I read on my own was a nineteenth-century edition of 'Tales from Livy' that I'd found in my grandfather's library.
desirable dominate environment grows society trait
The individual's desire to dominate his environment is not a desirable trait in a society which every day grows more and more confining.
truth
The truth about Pearl Harbour is obscured to this day. But it has been much studied.