What other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke?
GORE VIDALWhat other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke?
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.
GORE VIDALTo get people to do needed things is the perennial hard task of government, not to mention of religion and philosophy.
GORE VIDALPrimarily, I am a prose writer with axes to grind, and the theatre is a good place to do the grinding in. I prefer comedy to ‘serious’ drama because I believe one can get the ax sharper on the comedic stone.
GORE VIDALNever have children, only grandchildren.
GORE VIDALAny American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.
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 VIDALA friend was surprised to hear me say that there was not one moment of my past that I would like to relive.
GORE VIDALThere is only one party in the United States: the Property party… and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat.
GORE VIDALA racial or religious or tribal identity is a kind of fact.
GORE VIDALGossip is conversation about people.
GORE VIDALI’m all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.
GORE VIDALThat is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers.
GORE VIDALI’ve yet to read a memoir by anyone I’ve known at all well that came anywhere near to the truth.
GORE VIDALWashington turned a blind eye to Al-Qaeda.
GORE VIDALRemember, I’m West Point, where I was born. My father went there.
GORE VIDAL