It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
GORE VIDALIt is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
GORE VIDALWrite something, even if it’s just a suicide note.
GORE VIDALIn essence, Clinton’s Anti-Terrorism Act would set up a national police force, over the long-dead bodies of the founders.
GORE VIDALBaseball is the favorite American sport because it’s so slow. Any idiot can follow it. And just about any idiot can play it.
GORE VIDALAs the age of television progresses the Reagans will be the rule, not the exception. To be perfect for television is all a President has to be these days.
GORE VIDALStyle is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.
GORE VIDALWhat is in question is a kind of book reviewing which seems to be more and more popular: the loose putting down of opinions as though they were facts, and the treating of facts as though they were opinions.
GORE VIDALTelevision is now so desperately hungry for material that they’re scraping the top of the barrel.
GORE VIDALAny American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.
GORE VIDALI am a novelist turned temporary adventurer, and I chose to write television, movies and plays for much the same reason that Henry Morgan selected the Spanish Main for his peculiar – and not dissimilar – sphere of operations.
GORE VIDALAt any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation and prejudice.
GORE VIDALThe United States is the only civilized country in the world to class its teachers at the bottom of the social scale.
GORE VIDALTo get people to do needed things is the perennial hard task of government, not to mention of religion and philosophy.
GORE VIDALI’m all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.
GORE VIDALIt’s odd to meet a rather elderly man who says, ‘I’ve been reading you all my life.’ It makes you feel a slight chill.
GORE VIDALI’ve yet to read a memoir by anyone I’ve known at all well that came anywhere near to the truth.
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