That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers.
GORE VIDALThat is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers.
GORE VIDALFor the record, I’m a Second World War veteran and served in the Pacific.
GORE VIDALI was the most famous kid in the United States. That was 1936.
GORE VIDALAny American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.
GORE VIDALWhat other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke?
GORE VIDALThe genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.
GORE VIDALWhat is in question is a kind of book reviewing which seems to be more and more popular: the loose putting down of opinions as though they were facts, and the treating of facts as though they were opinions.
GORE VIDALI’m a fervent foe of water pollution, whether it is our own Hudson River or Philadelphia’s tap water.
GORE VIDALThe unfed mind devours itself.
GORE VIDALIn essence, Clinton’s Anti-Terrorism Act would set up a national police force, over the long-dead bodies of the founders.
GORE VIDALAmericans, in general, are ignorant, bigoted, and deeply unhappy with their declining incomes.
GORE VIDALEnvy is the central fact of American life.
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 VIDALIn America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you’re a great writer, you must say that you are.
GORE VIDALAyn Rand is a rhetorician who writes novels I have never been able to read.
GORE VIDALAs a schoolboy, I read most of Carl Sandburg’s six-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln.
GORE VIDAL