Gore Vidal Quotes


I'm devoted to promiscuity, and always have been. I believe the more you do, the better it is for you. I'm a great health nut, and sex is, I think, absolutely marvelous for the whole system; tones you up.


Citations

Vidal, Gore. "Playboy Interview: Gore Vidal." Playboy, Dec. 1969.

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Gore Vidal
Gore Vidal
  • Born: October 3, 1925
  • Died: July 31, 2012
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Writer, Novelist, Essayist, Playwright, Screenwriter, Actor

Eugene Luther Gore Vidal was an American writer and public intellectual known for his epigrammatic wit, patrician manner, and polished style of writing. Vidal was openly bisexual and his novels often dealt with LGBT characters, which was unusual at the time. Beyond literature, Vidal was heavily involved in politics. He twice sought office—unsuccessfully—as a Democratic Party candidate, first in 1960 to the United States House of Representatives (for New York), and later in 1982 to the U.S. Senate (for California).