There’s a lot to be said for being nouveau riche, and the Reagans mean to say it all.
GORE VIDALThere’s a lot to be said for being nouveau riche, and the Reagans mean to say it all.
GORE VIDALA racial or religious or tribal identity is a kind of fact.
GORE VIDALHe who is last had best laugh.
GORE VIDALSome of my father’s fellow West Pointers once asked him why I turned out so well, his secret in raising me. And he said, ‘I never gave him any advice, and he never asked for any.’ We agreed on nothing, but we never quarreled once.
GORE VIDALCertainly ‘The Judgment of Paris’ was the novel in which I found my own voice.
GORE VIDALI’m all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.
GORE VIDALIn essence, Clinton’s Anti-Terrorism Act would set up a national police force, over the long-dead bodies of the founders.
GORE VIDALI was the most famous kid in the United States. That was 1936.
GORE VIDALThe Pentagon talks about our power to ‘overkill’ Russia ten times, twenty times, perhaps forty-eight times. For my tax money, it is sufficient to overkill them once.
GORE VIDALWhen I say ‘president,’ I still mean Roosevelt – wisely, I think.
GORE VIDALOne is sorry one could not have taken both branches of the road. But we were not allotted multiple selves.
GORE VIDALYou cannot deprive somebody of life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, because that is a right – constitutional right.
GORE VIDALFrom April 1775 to July 1776, the undeclared war between England and its American colonies smoldered, flared up, appeared to sputter out… It was hardly, ever, a mass rebellion.
GORE VIDALCorporations must pay tax.
GORE VIDALAt any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation and prejudice.
GORE VIDALBaseball is the favorite American sport because it’s so slow. Any idiot can follow it. And just about any idiot can play it.
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