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
fallen hands history
American history has fallen more and more into the hands of academics.
except
This is not at all bad, except as prose.
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.
life stories
After adolescence, if one's life is sufficiently interesting, the desire to tell oneself stories diminishes.
Actually, I can't remember when I was not writing.
home
I am only at home in the present.
class generations thirds
I come from the highest class of all. I am a third-generation celebrity.
father magazines time-magazine
I have been on the cover of Time magazine. My father was on the cover of Time, and my grandfather was on the cover of Time.
cancer cutting america
Come to me and show me a small cancer and I'll tell you you've got a small cancer that should be cut out. That's realism but in America it's called cynicism.
social position known
I have no social position and I stay away from what is known as society as much as possible.
zoos couple house
When you are brought up in a zoo, you know what's going on in the monkey house. You see a couple of monkeys loose and one is President and one is Vice President, you know it's trouble. Monkeys make trouble.
gay deny persons
I deny that there's such a thing as a gay person. I deny there's such a thing as a heterosexual person.
two brain legs
Everybody has two legs, two lobes to the brain which is why we tend to be interested in symmetry, always balancing things.
war years harry-truman
I'm a true reactionary. Like all patricians, I'd like to restore the original republic, which we lost 40 years ago when Harry Truman imposed the national security state on us, which has kept us at war, hot or cold, for almost half a century, and it's got us $4 trillion into debt.