It is astonishing to think that millions of people in my time-now, too, I suppose-actually thought that at a given moment in history two human beings had evolved to a higher state than that of all the gods that ever were or ever will be. This is titanism, as the Greeks would say. This is madness.
Gore VidalAbout author
- Author's profession: Novelist, Writer
- Nationality: american
- Born: October 3, 1925
- Died: July 31, 2012
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