My father had lifelong contempt for politicians.
GORE VIDALMy father had lifelong contempt for politicians.
GORE VIDALEverything’s wrong on Wikipedia.
GORE VIDALMany writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made.
GORE VIDALAll children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.
GORE VIDALOur form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.
GORE VIDALThere is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.
GORE VIDALThere is no such thing as a homosexual or a heterosexual person. There are only homo- or heterosexual acts. Most people are a mixture of impulses if not practices.
GORE VIDALWhat the police in their ignorance have not figured out is that they have lost all credibility since World War II. They are sort of parasites on the fringe of society and do no particular good for anyone except possibly themselves.
GORE VIDALWriting fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.
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 I am is something unbearable for the world of journalism and the world of cliches. I’m a realist.
GORE VIDALI’ve yet to read a memoir by anyone I’ve known at all well that came anywhere near to the truth.
GORE VIDALCertainly ‘The Judgment of Paris’ was the novel in which I found my own voice.
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 VIDALI think I have a normal threshold of anger, but it’s true that I am, by nature, belligerent.
GORE VIDALI was raised in the Washington household of my grandfather Senator Thomas P. Gore of Oklahoma, and have known politicians intimately all my life.
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