I am a novelist turned temporary adventurer, and I chose to write television, movies and plays for much the same reason that Henry Morgan selected the Spanish Main for his peculiar – and not dissimilar – sphere of operations.
GORE VIDALYou hear all this whining going on, ‘Where are our great writers?’ The thing I might feel doleful about is: Where are the readers?
More Gore Vidal Quotes
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There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.
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Each youth betrays considerable anxiety about the wedding night ahead.
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My father had lifelong contempt for politicians.
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Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.
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I 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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Love is not my bag.
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Obama 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.
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Of all recent presidents, Clinton was expected to behave the most sensibly in economic matters. He understood how the economy works. But because he had used various dodges to stay out of the Vietnam War, he came to office ill at ease with the military.
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Ayn Rand is a rhetorician who writes novels I have never been able to read.
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I hate nobody.
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In the German concentration camps, Jews wore yellow stars while homosexuals wore pink lambdas.
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The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.
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To invent a war means that you’ve become a wartime president, and you can suspend much if not all of the Bill of Rights.
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Between fourteen and nineteen, I must have begun and abandoned six novels.
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Today’s public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can’t read them either.
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