In essence, Clinton’s Anti-Terrorism Act would set up a national police force, over the long-dead bodies of the founders.
GORE VIDALIn essence, Clinton’s Anti-Terrorism Act would set up a national police force, over the long-dead bodies of the founders.
GORE VIDALAs societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.
GORE VIDALThe United States was founded by the brightest people in the country – and we haven’t seen them since.
GORE VIDALBy the end of World War II, we were the most powerful and least damaged of the great nations. We also had most of the money. America’s hegemony lasted exactly five years.
GORE VIDALI am told the Cheney-Bush team dislikes their junta being compared to the Nazis. If they ceased behaving like Nazis, no comparison would come to mind.
GORE VIDALHistory is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true.
GORE VIDALWe’re not a democracy.
GORE VIDALEach youth betrays considerable anxiety about the wedding night ahead.
GORE VIDALSome writers take to drink, others take to audiences.
GORE VIDALIn the German concentration camps, Jews wore yellow stars while homosexuals wore pink lambdas.
GORE VIDALThere’s a lot to be said for being nouveau riche, and the Reagans mean to say it all.
GORE VIDALI know a lot of the Annapolis breed.
GORE VIDALI’m always an optimist!
GORE VIDALPolicemen are seldom tried for their crimes, or indeed, held responsible for what they do, which disturbs the peace and causes distress among the orderly.
GORE VIDALIn the writing of novels, there is the problem of how to shape a narrative.
GORE VIDALI’ve yet to read a memoir by anyone I’ve known at all well that came anywhere near to the truth.
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