Gore Vidal Quotes
The Americans are clever. They thoroughly understand things that have to do with money, war, death, sickness. And there is also a real tradition of skepticism in this country.
Come to me and show me a small cancer and I'll tell you you've got a small cancer that should be cut out. That's realism but in America it's called cynicism.
Ideally, of course, a relationship is best, but then how many people are capable of deep feeling? Practically none.
Prepare yourself for some bad news: Ronald Reagan’s library just burned down. Both books were destroyed. But the real horror: He hadn’t finished coloring either one of them.
It is of no consequence what others think of you. What matters is what you think of them. That is how you live your life.
I wanted to be a politician and a movie star. But I was born a writer. If you're born that, you can't change it. You're going to do it whether you want to or not.
Although Americans justify their self-interest in moral terms, their true interest is never itself moral.
We do not want to old to be sharper than we. It is bad enough that they were there first, and got the best things.
I am afraid that as people grow old there is a tendency for them to believe that what the past *ought* to have been it was.
...Leggett feels that to be excitingly right in general is better than to be dully accurate in particular. That is why he is such an effective journalist.
A talent for drama is not a talent for writing but is an ability to articulate human relationships.
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.
Overcrowding in the cities is producing a collective madness in which irrational violence flourishes because man needs more space in which to be than the modern city allows.
'The Turner Diaries' is a racist daydream by a former physics teacher writing under the pseudonym Andrew Macdonald.
In classical times, it was a capital offense to speculate upon the hour of a king's death or upon the identity of his successor.
We are the United States of Amnesia, which is encouraged by a media that has no desire to tell us the truth about anything, serving their corporate masters who have other plans to dominate us.
I think I have a normal threshold of anger, but it's true that I am, by nature, belligerent.
