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
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.
sex gentleman matter
Gentlemen are not supposed to tell the truth about their sex lives, nor are ladies, for that matter. Of course Clinton lied - as would anybody in his position.
views matter comedy
What begins with comedy ends with comedy... in my short view of the matter.
thinking what-matters live-your-life
It is of no consequence to you what others think of you. What matters is what you think of them. That is how you live your life.
matter ends found
God, or what have you, will not be found at the far end of a syllogism, no matter how brilliantly phrased or conceived.
america what-matters long
What matters finally is not the world's judgment of oneself but one's own judgment of the world.... Any writer who lacks this final arrogance will not survive very long in America.
matter contradiction unnoticed
In matters of faith, inconvenient evidence is always suppressed while contradictions go unnoticed.
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.
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.
fourteen
Between fourteen and nineteen, I must have begun and abandoned six novels.
debated democratic eager label ran run seriously suspicious whether
Temperamentally, I am suspicious of belonging to anything. When I ran for office, I debated seriously whether or not to run as an independent because I was not eager to be saddled with the Democratic Party, because any party label is committing.
tim tiny
Every generation gets the Tiny Tim it deserves.
country
Every country should have at least one King Farouk.