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
family
My family is Southern. I'm used to Bill Clintons.
venice alps my-family
I suppose my liking for Italy is partly atavism, my family are of the old Roman stock. They came from the Alps north of Venice.
family suffering together
The family in the West is finished... its origin was economic, not biological... the odd group of strangers that make up every family no longer have any reason to live together, to suffer from one another's jagged edges.
country political my-family
My family helped start [this country], we've been in political life ... since the 1690s, and I have a very possessive sense about this country.
dismiss entirely politics
We are pleased to dismiss politics as entirely corrupt, if not financially, intellectually.
effects himself kept magician matter public until view
Until very recently, the artist was a magician who did his magic in public view but kept himself and his effects a matter of mystery.
west
Remember, I'm West Point, where I was born. My father went there.
government repeated tv
Like the TV networks, once our government has a hit, it will be repeated over and over again.
famous united
I was the most famous kid in the United States. That was 1936.
abuse allowed although freedom money morals order paradox private public society
It is a paradox of the acquisitive society in which we now live that although private morals are regulated by law, the entrepreneur is allowed considerable freedom to use - and abuse - the public in order to make money.
instinct rid
I think there is an instinct out there to rid us of our masters.
doctrine essential experience good naturalist worked
It is essential to naturalist doctrine that literature, to be good, must, finally, be the author's experience worked out literally.
far french german god graduate knows school
The American high school graduate is two years behind his English, French or German counterpart; in Alabama, God knows how far behind.
Most of our writers tend to be recorders.