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
As a schoolboy, I read most of Carl Sandburg's six-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln.
In the writing of novels, there is the problem of how to shape a narrative.
countries dumb
As dumb as this administration is, they don't look ahead. They don't know where any countries are. They don't know how to make deals. They don't really know much about anything. There is no plan.
eliminate
Why not just eliminate the federal income tax?
teacher simple sea
It is difficult to find a reputable American historian who will acknowledge the crude fact that a Franklin Roosevelt, say, wanted to be President merely to wield power, to be famed and to be feared. To learn this simple fact one must wade through a sea of evasions: history as sociology, leaders as teachers, bland benevolence as a motive force, when, finally, power is an end to itself, and the instinctive urge to prevail the most important single human trait, the necessary force without which no city was built, no city destroyed.
Always a godfather, never a god.
ideas ironic conspiracy
It is ironic that a nation that has never experienced a coup d'etat should be so obsessed with the idea of conspiracy.
mysterious kind talent
You can improve your talent, but your talent is a given, a mysterious constant. You must make it the best of its kind.
enemy neighbor
One's neighbor is always the enemy. That is the nature of things.
Never have varmints, only grandvarmints.