Jews, blacks and homosexuals are despised by the Christian and Communist majorities of East and West. Also, as a result of the invention of Israel, Jews can now count on the hatred of the Islamic world.
GORE VIDALJews, blacks and homosexuals are despised by the Christian and Communist majorities of East and West. Also, as a result of the invention of Israel, Jews can now count on the hatred of the Islamic world.
GORE VIDALI never said I was gay, because I don’t think anyone is.
GORE VIDALWriting fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.
GORE VIDALCertainly ‘The Judgment of Paris’ was the novel in which I found my own voice.
GORE VIDALNever have children, only grandchildren.
GORE VIDALOur form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.
GORE VIDALThe corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity – much less dissent.
GORE VIDALLike the TV networks, once our government has a hit, it will be repeated over and over again.
GORE VIDALWe’re not a democracy.
GORE VIDALI think I have a normal threshold of anger, but it’s true that I am, by nature, belligerent.
GORE VIDALTo a man, ornithologists are tall, slender, and bearded so that they can stand motionless for hours, imitating kindly trees, as they watch for birds.
GORE VIDALThe 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.
GORE VIDALWhat I am is something unbearable for the world of journalism and the world of cliches. I’m a realist.
GORE VIDALYou cannot deprive somebody of life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, because that is a right – constitutional right.
GORE VIDALGossip is conversation about people.
GORE VIDALEverything’s wrong on Wikipedia.
GORE VIDAL