black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers.

Gore Vidal

In essence, Clinton’s Anti-Terrorism Act would set up a national police force, over the long-dead bodies of the founders.
GORE VIDAL

Act Finding Force National Police
The United States is the only civilized country in the world to class its teachers at the bottom of the social scale.
GORE VIDAL

Civilization Country Scale Social Teacher World
Why not just eliminate the federal income tax?
GORE VIDAL

Elimination Income Tax
Envy is the central fact of American life.
GORE VIDAL

Central Fact Life
On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.
GORE VIDAL

Death Department Nation State
Gossip is conversation about people.
GORE VIDAL

Conversation Gossip People
To get people to do needed things is the perennial hard task of government, not to mention of religion and philosophy.
GORE VIDAL

Government Need People Philosophy Religion
Between fourteen and nineteen, I must have begun and abandoned six novels.
GORE VIDAL

Age Beginning Myself
Love is not my bag.
GORE VIDAL

Love One Liner
Never have children, only grandchildren.
GORE VIDAL

Children Family Funny
What the police in their ignorance have not figured out is that they have lost all credibility since World War II. They are sort of parasites on the fringe of society and do no particular good for anyone except possibly themselves.
GORE VIDAL

Credible Exception Ignorance Possible Society
I’m all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.
GORE VIDAL

Adult Consent Myself
In writing and politicking, it’s best not to think about it, just do it.
GORE VIDAL

Best Thinking Writing
Until the rise of American advertising, it never occurred to anyone anywhere in the world that the teenager was a captive in a hostile world of adults.
GORE VIDAL

Adult Advertise Captive Rise World
What other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke?
GORE VIDAL

Culture Joke Production See
By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he’s been bought ten times over.
GORE VIDAL

Himself Man Material President Time

That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Gore Vidal Quotes