Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.
GORE VIDALLitigation takes the place of sex at middle age.
GORE VIDALTo invent a war means that you’ve become a wartime president, and you can suspend much if not all of the Bill of Rights.
GORE VIDALAmericans, in general, are ignorant, bigoted, and deeply unhappy with their declining incomes.
GORE VIDALLove is not my bag.
GORE VIDALThe greatest pleasure when I started making money was not buying cars or yachts but finding myself able to have as many freshly typed drafts as possible.
GORE VIDALIn the writing of novels, there is the problem of how to shape a narrative.
GORE VIDALIt is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
GORE VIDALI hate nobody.
GORE VIDALEnvy is the central fact of American life.
GORE VIDALTemperamentally, I am suspicious of belonging to anything. When I ran for office, I debated seriously whether or not to run as an independent because I was not eager to be saddled with the Democratic Party, because any party label is committing.
GORE VIDALBoys don’t like girls around when they do boy things.
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 VIDALBoth Marx and Christ agree that in this life, a right action is consideration for the welfare of others.
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 VIDALI’m not a conspiracy theorist – I’m a conspiracy analyst.
GORE VIDALThat is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers.
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