In character, as it were, the writer settles for an impression of what happened rather than creating the sense of the thing happening.
GORE VIDALIn character, as it were, the writer settles for an impression of what happened rather than creating the sense of the thing happening.
GORE VIDALIn essence, Clinton’s Anti-Terrorism Act would set up a national police force, over the long-dead bodies of the founders.
GORE VIDALBoth Marx and Christ agree that in this life, a right action is consideration for the welfare of others.
GORE VIDALHaving no contemporaries left means you cannot say, ‘Well, so-and-so will like this,’ which you do when you’re younger. You realize there is no so-and-so anymore. You are your own so-and-so. There is a bleak side to it.
GORE VIDALAmericans have no idea of the extent of their government’s mischief… the number of military strikes we have made unprovoked, against other countries, since 1947 is more than 250.
GORE VIDALObama just came swiftly out of nowhere, which was a relief to those of us who care about the Republic, and at first he seemed a very good thing.
GORE VIDALFor the record, I’m a Second World War veteran and served in the Pacific.
GORE VIDALAny American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.
GORE VIDALGossip is conversation about people.
GORE VIDALLike the TV networks, once our government has a hit, it will be repeated over and over again.
GORE VIDALI never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
GORE VIDALIt is true, as Sartre once wrote, referring to French Army atrocities in Algeria, that the real tragedy in our time is that any of us can be, interchangeably, victim or torturer.
GORE VIDALI’m a fervent foe of water pollution, whether it is our own Hudson River or Philadelphia’s tap water.
GORE VIDALYou hear all this whining going on, ‘Where are our great writers?’ The thing I might feel doleful about is: Where are the readers?
GORE VIDALWorld War II made prosperous the United States, which had been undergoing a depression for a dozen years, and made very rich those magnates and their managers who govern the republic – with many a wink – in the people’s name.
GORE VIDALWe are pleased to dismiss politics as entirely corrupt, if not financially, intellectually.
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