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
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.
journalism being-true whole
The whole point to American journalism is what ought to be true is true.
oil agriculture entrepreneur
Big oil, big steel, big agriculture avoid the open marketplace. Big corporations fix prices among themselves and thus drive out of business the small entrepreneur. Also, in their conglomerate form, the huge corporations have begun to challenge the very legitimacy of the state.
desire pursuit fragments
Where there is no desire or pursuits, there is no wholeness. But there are satisfying lesser states, fragments.
mistake hero thinking
Don't ever make the mistake with people like me thinking we are looking for heroes. There aren't any and if there were, they would be killed immediately. I'm never surprised by bad behaviour. I expect it.
children fall character
I keep as far from children as possible. I don't like the size of them; the scale is all wrong. The head tends to be too big for the bodies and the hands and feet are a disaster and they keep falling into things, and the nakedness of their bad character...