Gore Vidal

Gore Vidal's biography

Gore Vidal is 87 years old playwright born at West Point. He was born on Saturday 3rd of October 1925. According to year of birth 1925 he belongs to Greatest Generation. Birthday on 3rd of October means he is Libra. Libra sign depicts that it is all about “Balance”. It seems that their life is very balanced, however, things are way opposite as they always face unstable situations in order to balance it further.

He is native english speaker. He is citizen of United States of America. He is an adherent of atheism. His primary profession is to be playwright. You can know him also as actor, screenwriter, novelist, essayist, writer, literary critic, non-fiction writer, science fiction writer, politician, journalist, prosaist, opinion journalist. He is recently known as author.

Gore Vidal's dad

Gore Vidal's father's name is Eugene Luther Vidal.

Gore Vidal's mom

Gore Vidal's mother's name is Nina S. Gore.

Gore Vidal's family

Gore Vidal's ex spouse

Howard Austen

Gore Vidal and Howard Austen have been together.

Gore Vidal's schools

We found 3 schools He attended. Complete list of schools: Phillips Exeter Academy, Sidwell Friends School, St. Albans School.

Gore Vidal's career

His main focus is to be playwright. He is famous thanks to Myra Breckinridge. He is also a member of American Academy of Arts and Letters.

How did Gore Vidal die

He died on on Tuesday 31st of July 2012 when he was 87 years old at Hollywood Hills. Gore Vidals death was caused by complications from pneumonia. It happend like natural causes.

Awards and competitions

Gore Vidal's Awards

• Won a National Book Award (1993) for his non-fiction collection "United States: Essays, 1952-1992".
• Was nominated for Broadway's 1960 Tony Award as author of Best Play for "The Best Man".
• In 1976, he accepted the Oscar for best writing-original screenplay on behalf of Frank Pierson, who wasn't present at the Academy Awards ceremony.

Gore Vidal's quotes

• [1976] It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
• A talent for drama is not a talent for writing, but is an ability to articulate human relationships.
• [1998] The [United States] empire is going to strike back at the Internet in the interest of protecting our children from porn, drugs and terrorism - all of which the U.S. government will claim is being peddled by the Internet.
• [asked to describe himself in one word] Realist.
• [1981] A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.
• [1995] Once people get hung up on theology, they've lost sanity forever. More people have been killed in the name of Jesus Christ than any other name in the history of the world.
• The idea of a good society is something you do not need a religion and eternal punishment to buttress; you need a religion if you are terrified of death.
• I'm a born-again atheist.
• Politics is made up of two words: "Poli," which is Greek for "many," and "tics," which are bloodsucking insects.
• I find stupidity very exciting. And I'm excited all day long.
• [on the United States] It is a pointless empire, which gives a satirist like me great pleasure, the fact that nothing makes any sense.
• Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say and not giving a damn.
• To write a script today means working for a committee of people who know nothing about movies, as opposed, say, to real estate or the higher art of bookkeeping.
• [in 1956] I am at heart a propagandist, a tremendous hater, a tiresome nag, complacently positive that there is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.
• I don't go to movies for love, do you?
• It's realism. Life is mostly luck!
• [upon learning of Truman Capote's death] Good career move.
• [2007] I do a lot of reading of the dead. I finally got around after 50 years to reading all of Aristotle. He's very good on republics, how they always come a cropper, and why. Required reading. Republics, once lost, don't easily come back.
• [1979] There is no such thing as a homosexual person, any more than there is such a thing as a heterosexual person. The words are adjectives describing sexual acts, not people. The sexual acts are entirely normal.
• [on America during the George W. Bush years] Never have so many things gone so wrong all at once. Saboteurs and thieves have been in charge of every part of government.
• [on his 53-year relationship with Howard Austen] It is very easy to sustain a relationship when sex plays no part, and impossible when it does.
• My grandmother would say, "If it's in the newspapers, it's just not true." That was our automatic take.
• William Faulkner told me not to fall into the trap F. Scott Fitzgerald did. He thought you could make something out of a movie. You can't. Go, get the money, go home, write your books.
• The best thing about being Anglophone is that you have two countries.
• [1973] Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.
• Shit has its own integrity.
• But John F. Kennedy had great charm. So has Barack Obama. He's better educated than Jack. And he's been a working senator. Jack never went to the office - he wanted the presidency and his father bought it for him.
• [on John F. Kennedy] I never believed in John F. Kennedy's charisma. He was one of our worst presidents. Robert F. Kennedy was a phony, a little Torquemada and their father [Joseph P. Kennedy] was a crook - should have been in jail.
• The George W. Bush people have virtually got rid of Magna Carta and habeas corpus. In a normal republic I would probably have raised an army and overthrown them. It will take a hundred years to put it all back.
• [commenting on the vast Jerusalem set for Ben-Hur (1959)] This Jerusalem is the Jerusalem of Jesus Christ. He could move through the city and feel that he was absolutely at home. He would know where to go to order a pizza.
• [on Truman Capote] Capote should be heard, not read.
• Those presidential ninnies should stick to throwing out baseballs and leave the important matters to serious people.
• [on Carson McCullers] Of all our Southern writers, Carson McCullers is the one most likely to endure.
• [when asked by David Frost if his first sexual experience was heterosexual or homosexual] I was too polite to ask.
• [on Anita Bryant] As to Anita's fear that she'll be assassinated, the only people who might shoot Anita Bryant are music lovers.
• [on William F. Buckley] Looks and sounds not unlike Hitler, but without the charm.
• [on Ronald Reagan] A triumph of the embalmer's art.
• [on his role at a christening] Always a godfather, never a god.
• When you get to a certain age, a juicy lawsuit is sometimes the only thing that gets you up in the morning.
• [on Truman Capote] Every generation gets the Tiny Tim it deserves.
• 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, especially in America.
• [1973] I'm all for bringing back the birch, but only between consulting adults.
• I love prostitution. I think it's just absolutely the greatest institution there is and it's the most honest.
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