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
blood two greek
'Politics' is made up of two words, 'poli,' which is Greek for 'many,' and 'tics,' which are blood-sucking insects.
running country law
Country is run by... financial powers & corporate interests [who] send their lawyers to Congress to make laws so that they don't have to pay taxes
home
I am only at home in the present.
aerospace quite senator
I could be a lot happier. I could be the senator from Aerospace taking bribes, and be quite happy.
edition
The first grown-up book that I read on my own was a nineteenth-century edition of 'Tales from Livy' that I'd found in my grandfather's library.
desirable dominate environment grows society trait
The individual's desire to dominate his environment is not a desirable trait in a society which every day grows more and more confining.
truth
The truth about Pearl Harbour is obscured to this day. But it has been much studied.
began life
I began life as an absolute monarchist - on condition, of course, that I be that monarch.
fervent foe hudson tap whether
I'm a fervent foe of water pollution, whether it is our own Hudson River or Philadelphia's tap water.
happened impression rather settles
In character, as it were, the writer settles for an impression of what happened rather than creating the sense of the thing happening.
capital classical death hour offense speculate
In classical times, it was a capital offense to speculate upon the hour of a king's death or upon the identity of his successor.
I never wanted to be a writer. I mean, that's the last thing I wanted.
except
This is not at all bad, except as prose.
As a schoolboy, I read most of Carl Sandburg's six-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln.