TV news is not very instructive.
GORE VIDALTV news is not very instructive.
GORE VIDALThe behaviour of President Bush on 11 September certainly gives rise to not unnatural suspicions.
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 VIDALAyn Rand is a rhetorician who writes novels I have never been able to read.
GORE VIDALCertainly ‘The Judgment of Paris’ was the novel in which I found my own voice.
GORE VIDALThe unfed mind devours itself.
GORE VIDALWhat I like least about myself is my belligerence.
GORE VIDALWrite something, even if it’s just a suicide note.
GORE VIDALNearly everyone who goes into a campaign is not only eager for the place he hopes to fill but for what might come after.
GORE VIDALAll in all, I would not have missed this century for the world.
GORE VIDALI’m a fervent foe of water pollution, whether it is our own Hudson River or Philadelphia’s tap water.
GORE VIDALLitigation takes the place of sex at middle age.
GORE VIDALI’ve yet to read a memoir by anyone I’ve known at all well that came anywhere near to the truth.
GORE VIDALRemember, I’m West Point, where I was born. My father went there.
GORE VIDALBoth Marx and Christ agree that in this life, a right action is consideration for the welfare of others.
GORE VIDALThere’s a lot to be said for being nouveau riche, and the Reagans mean to say it all.
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