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.
dismiss entirely politics
We are pleased to dismiss politics as entirely corrupt, if not financially, intellectually.
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.