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
I never wanted to be a writer. I mean, that's the last thing I wanted.
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.
next sam script worked
During the late '50s, I had worked on the script of Ben-Hur in an office next to that of the producer Sam Zimbalist.
ahead city pointed
That is New York. I pointed to the waterfront just ahead as if the city were mine.
brought phrase whatever
As for my support for Obama, remember that I was brought up in Washington. It was an all-black city when I was a kid. And I've always been very pro-African-American - or whatever phrase we now use.
As a schoolboy, I read most of Carl Sandburg's six-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln.
american-novelist andy genius
Andy Warhol is the only genius I've ever known with an I.Q. of 60.
betrays night wedding
Each youth betrays considerable anxiety about the wedding night ahead.
elderly life man meet odd rather slight
It's odd to meet a rather elderly man who says, 'I've been reading you all my life.' It makes you feel a slight chill.
difference four parties party percent vote voting whom
It makes no difference whom you vote for -- the two parties are really one party representing four percent of the people.
ability articulate drama human talent
A talent for drama is not a talent for writing, but is an ability to articulate human relationships.
certain litigation sex takes
For certain people, after fifty, litigation takes the place of sex
bound continuing impatient might next point rather trait
Americans are future-minded to the point of obsession. We are impatient at living in the present. Tomorrow is bound to be better... next year, next century, always what might be rather than what is. This trait in us makes for 'progress;' it also makes for a continuing dissatisfaction.
declining deeply
Americans, in general, are ignorant, bigoted, and deeply unhappy with their declining incomes.