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
father two america
Democracy is something America has never really practiced. Because the Founding Fathers hated two things: monarchy and democracy. They wanted a republic, a replica of the Roman or Venetian republics. They didn't even like the etymology of the word "democracy."
drama self has-beens
The true confessors have been aware that not only is life mostly failure, but that in one's failure or pettiness or wrongness exists the living drama of the self.
father giving daddy
Although the notion of one god may give comfort to those in need of a daddy, it reminds the rest of us that the totalitarian society is grounded upon the concept of God the father. One paternal god, one paternal leader. Authority is absolute.
sex doe generations
It is vice to go to bed with someone you are not married to or have someone of your own sex or to get money for having sex with someone who does not appeal to you-incidentally, the basis of half the marriages of my generation.
birthday believe exercise
It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true.
social position known
I have no social position and I stay away from what is known as society as much as possible.
other-cultures literature culture
What other culture could have produced someone like Hemmingway and not seen the joke?
sex age middle
Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.
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.
book world may
That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers.
want united-states subjects
If you want to rise in politics in the United States, there is one subject you must stay away from, and that is politics.
reality games people
No one reads novels anymore. And I don't see the situation improving. People prefer video games, reality TV, and films. There are so many reasons now not to read novels.
mask
Most lives are spent putting on and taking off masks.
enemy neighbor
One's neighbor is always the enemy. That is the nature of things.