What 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 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.
More Gore Vidal Quotes
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The unfed mind devours itself.
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If you are a Representative and want to be a Senator, you must be careful not to do anything which might upset the various forces you need to harness to get elected.
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He who is last had best laugh.
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Anybody who is stupid enough to want to be remembered deserves to be forgotten right now.
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I know a lot of the Annapolis breed.
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The human race is plainly nothing in eternity, but to us, in time, it is everything and ought not to die.
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I’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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The first grown-up book that I read on my own was a nineteenth-century edition of ‘Tales from Livy’ that I’d found in my grandfather’s library.
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In character, as it were, the writer settles for an impression of what happened rather than creating the sense of the thing happening.
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TV news is not very instructive.
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Americans 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.
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All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world.
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I’m always an optimist!
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Actually, I can’t remember when I was not writing.
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By 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.
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