Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they’re scraping the top of the barrel. Gore Vidal Read Quote
Anybody who is stupid enough to want to be remembered deserves to be forgotten right now. Gore Vidal Read Quote
Europe 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 Vidal Read Quote
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. Gore Vidal Read Quote
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. Gore Vidal Read Quote
The American high school graduate is two years behind his English, French or German counterpart; in Alabama, God knows how far behind. Gore Vidal Read Quote
There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise. Gore Vidal Read Quote
Fortunately, our audiences are used to a kind of boredom in the theatre, and if the writer is skillful, he will flatter them into thinking: ‘Why, that’s us up there, and aren’t we – for all our little foibles – pretty nice guys and gals?’ Gore Vidal Read Quote
