Certainly ‘The Judgment of Paris’ was the novel in which I found my own voice.
GORE VIDALOn September 5, 1774, forty-five of the weightiest colonial men formed the First Continental Congress at Philadelphia.
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I never wanted to be a writer. I mean, that’s the last thing I wanted.
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After adolescence, if one’s life is sufficiently interesting, the desire to tell oneself stories diminishes.
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It is very difficult for a writer of my generation, if he is honest, to pretend indifference to the work of Somerset Maugham. He was always so entirely there.
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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.
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I am told the Cheney-Bush team dislikes their junta being compared to the Nazis. If they ceased behaving like Nazis, no comparison would come to mind.
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Some have deplored Lincoln’s indifference to Christianity. But it was not religion, it was religiosity that put him off.
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Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.
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The Turner Diaries’ is a racist daydream by a former physics teacher writing under the pseudonym Andrew Macdonald.
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I’m always an optimist!
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I can’t name three first-rate literary critics in the United States. I’m told there are a few hidden away at universities, but they don’t print them in ‘The New York Times.’
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There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.
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As a schoolboy, I read most of Carl Sandburg’s six-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln.
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I cannot remember when I was not fascinated by Henry Adams.
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I’m a fervent foe of water pollution, whether it is our own Hudson River or Philadelphia’s tap water.
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On September 5, 1774, forty-five of the weightiest colonial men formed the First Continental Congress at Philadelphia.
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