I know a lot of the Annapolis breed.
GORE VIDALI know a lot of the Annapolis breed.
GORE VIDALSince we have literally targeted our enemies, the Pentagon assumes that, sooner or later, rogues will take out our cities, presumably from spaceships.
GORE VIDALA narcissist is someone better looking than you are.
GORE VIDALThe greatest pleasure when I started making money was not buying cars or yachts but finding myself able to have as many freshly typed drafts as possible.
GORE VIDALBy the end of World War II, we were the most powerful and least damaged of the great nations. We also had most of the money. America’s hegemony lasted exactly five years.
GORE VIDALEurope began as the relatively empty, uncivilized Wild West of Asia; then the Western Hemisphere became the Wild West of Europe. Now the sun has set in our West and risen once more in the East.
GORE VIDALWhat I am is something unbearable for the world of journalism and the world of cliches. I’m a realist.
GORE VIDALSome have deplored Lincoln’s indifference to Christianity. But it was not religion, it was religiosity that put him off.
GORE VIDALOf 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.
GORE VIDALAfter adolescence, if one’s life is sufficiently interesting, the desire to tell oneself stories diminishes.
GORE VIDALI could be a lot happier. I could be the senator from Aerospace taking bribes, and be quite happy.
GORE VIDALAs for my support for Obama, remember that I was brought up in Washington. It was an all-black city when I was a kid. And I’ve always been very pro-African-American – or whatever phrase we now use.
GORE VIDALI was the most famous kid in the United States. That was 1936.
GORE VIDALIn the writing of novels, there is the problem of how to shape a narrative.
GORE VIDALAmericans have no idea of the extent of their government’s mischief… the number of military strikes we have made unprovoked, against other countries, since 1947 is more than 250.
GORE VIDALI’m always an optimist!
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