Gore Vidal Quotes
What I like least about myself is my belligerence.
Vidal, Gore. "The Proust Questionnaire." Vanity Fair, Dec. 2006.
Once blood is shed in a national quarrel, reason and right are swept aside by the rage of angry men.
1st Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor
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).
