Quote

The first TV babies are now writing with a TV mind that has no attention span at all.

Gore Vidal

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Gore Vidal
Age: 86 †
Born: 1925
Born: October 3
Died: 2012
Died: July 31
Actor
Essayist
Journalist
Literary Critic
Non-Fiction Writer
Novelist
Opinion Journalist
Playwright
Politician
Prosaist
West Point
New York
Eugene Luther Gore Vidal
Gor Vidal
Cameron Kay
Eugene Luther Vidal
Edgar Box
Katherine Everard
Eugene Vidal
Attention
Firsts
First
Writing
Mind
Span
Babies
Baby

More quotes by Gore Vidal

Image
World events are the work of individuals whose motives are often frivolous, even casual.
Gore Vidal
Image
Nixon was a Southern Rim President, and so antipathetic to the old guard.
Gore Vidal
Image
Most lives are spent putting on and taking off masks.
Gore Vidal
Image
Always a godfather, never a god.
Gore Vidal
Image
Celebrities are invariably celebrity-mad, just as liars always believe liars.
Gore Vidal
Image
Apparently, 'conspiracy stuff' is now shorthand for unspeakable truth.
Gore Vidal
Image
Love, like a sense of humor, is now claimed by everyone even though Love, like a sense of humor, is rather more rare than not, and to most of us poor muddlers unbearable at full strength.
Gore Vidal
Image
It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four percent of the people.
Gore Vidal
Image
You know, I've been around the ruling class all my life, and I've been quite aware of their total contempt for the people of the country.
Gore Vidal
Image
There are two things you never turn down: sex and appearing on television.
Gore Vidal
Image
USA is suffering between imperialists and anti-imperialists. That is the situation. The most powerful country in the world is on its way back to the Stone Age.
Gore Vidal
Image
All I want is that Americans still be able to read the alphabet in a hundred years. I am not very ambitious.
Gore Vidal
Image
Obviously I'm in favor of protecting the rights of everybody: gay, black, women, what have you, American Indians.
Gore Vidal
Image
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.
Gore Vidal
Image
True wisdom is to know the extent of what you don't know quite as well as you know what you do know.
Gore Vidal
Image
Since nothing is free, to each his price.
Gore Vidal
Image
I have never been particularly impressed by the self centered musings of my fellow writers.
Gore Vidal
Image
What we are is seldom what we want to be, while what we want to be is either denied us or changes with the seasons.
Gore Vidal
Image
Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they're scraping the top of the barrel.
Gore Vidal
Image
If you're not part of that club, as I certainly am not, you are not presidential.
Gore Vidal