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
world events individual
World events are the work of individuals whose motives are often frivolous, even casual.
hygiene literature world
Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made.
book world may
That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers.
death dying world
To bring into the world an unwanted human being is as antisocial an act as murder.
army self world
The world came so close to self-destruction during my lifetime. I was serving in the American Army, in the Pacific, at the time they bombed Hiroshima and then Nagasaki, and I felt there something like a foretaste of the end of the world.
book ignorance world
How marvelous books are, crossing worlds and centuries, defeating ignorance and, finally, cruel time itself.
world century
All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world.
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.