It’s always best to stay out of other people’s divorces. And their civil wars.
GORE VIDALIt’s always best to stay out of other people’s divorces. And their civil wars.
GORE VIDALThe 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.
GORE VIDALAyn Rand is a rhetorician who writes novels I have never been able to read.
GORE VIDALI cannot remember when I was not fascinated by Henry Adams.
GORE VIDALI remember the Bond movies when I was a child. They were silent then.
GORE VIDALBoth Marx and Christ agree that in this life, a right action is consideration for the welfare of others.
GORE VIDALThere is no such thing as a homosexual or a heterosexual person. There are only homo- or heterosexual acts. Most people are a mixture of impulses if not practices.
GORE VIDALTV news is not very instructive.
GORE VIDALFor the record, I’m a Second World War veteran and served in the Pacific.
GORE VIDALIt is true, as Sartre once wrote, referring to French Army atrocities in Algeria, that the real tragedy in our time is that any of us can be, interchangeably, victim or torturer.
GORE VIDALEach youth betrays considerable anxiety about the wedding night ahead.
GORE VIDALToday’s public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can’t read them either.
GORE VIDALSex is. There is nothing more to be done about it. Sex builds no roads, writes no novels and sex certainly gives no meaning to anything in life but itself.
GORE VIDALTo get people to do needed things is the perennial hard task of government, not to mention of religion and philosophy.
GORE VIDALI know a lot of the Annapolis breed.
GORE VIDALThe corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity – much less dissent.
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