I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
GORE VIDALI never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
GORE VIDALThe more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.
GORE VIDALIt is essential to naturalist doctrine that literature, to be good, must, finally, be the author’s experience worked out literally.
GORE VIDALAnybody who is stupid enough to want to be remembered deserves to be forgotten right now.
GORE VIDALAyn Rand is a rhetorician who writes novels I have never been able to read.
GORE VIDALThe genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.
GORE VIDALIt is always a delicate matter, when a friend or acquaintance becomes president.
GORE VIDALWhat I am is something unbearable for the world of journalism and the world of cliches. I’m a realist.
GORE VIDALDoes one ever read a politician’s books?
GORE VIDALIn the writing of novels, there is the problem of how to shape a narrative.
GORE VIDALWhen I say ‘president,’ I still mean Roosevelt – wisely, I think.
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 am only at home in the present.
GORE VIDALI hate nobody.
GORE VIDALIn classical times, it was a capital offense to speculate upon the hour of a king’s death or upon the identity of his successor.
GORE VIDALWhile campaigning, I got to know many high-school teachers, and let me say that the good ones are the unsung heroes of our society, and the bad ones are the gravediggers.
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