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
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.
sex normal interest
To have an interest in both sexes is equally normal. Whether it's practiced or not is something else. Some do. Some don't.
years ambitious want
All I want is that Americans still be able to read the alphabet in a hundred years. I am not very ambitious.
country clever war
The Americans are clever. They thoroughly understand things that have to do with money, war, death, sickness. And there is also a real tradition of skepticism in this country.
littles might india
I might become an ascetic, live in India. A little rice is about the best I can do now.
writing goes-on television
I have no television to go on so I get a lot of writing done. That's my substitute for television.
thinking years would-be
I am glad my life is coming to an end. To think that it might last another five hundred years, now that would be terrible, in my case.
deny
I don't deny or affirm anything. I'm not very personal.
venice alps my-family
I suppose my liking for Italy is partly atavism, my family are of the old Roman stock. They came from the Alps north of Venice.
land populist presses
Populists have never had a good press in Freedom's land.