How marvelous books are, crossing worlds and centuries, defeating ignorance and, finally, cruel time itself.
Gore VidalTraitors who prevail are patriots; usurpers who succeed are divine emperors.
Gore VidalThe worst thing to happen to Lincoln - aside from the unfortunate incident at Ford's theatre - was to fall into the hands of Carl Sandburg.
Gore VidalYou can't really succeed with a novel anyway; they're too big. It's like city planning. You can't plan a perfect city because there's too much going on that you can't take into account. You can, however, write a perfect sentence now and then. I have.
Gore VidalTag: writing writers novel sentence
I sometimes think it is because they are so bad at expressing themselves verbally that writers take to pen and paper in the first place
Gore VidalTag: writing
The idea of a good society is something you do not need a religion and eternal punishment to buttress; you need a religion if you are terrified of death.
Gore VidalThe planet Venus, a circle of silver in a green sky, pierced the edge of the evening while the wintry woods darkened about me and in the stillness the regular sound of my footsteps striking the pavement was like a the rhythmic beating of a giant stone heart.
Gore Vidala writer must always tell the truth (unless he's a journalist)
Gore VidalI believe there's something very salutary in, say, beating up a gay-bashing policeman. Preferably one fights through the courts, through the laws, through education, but if at a neighborhood level violence is necessary, I'm all for violence. It's the only thing Americans understand.
Gore VidalThe malady of civilized man is his knowledge of death. The good artist, like the wise man, addresses himself to life and invests with his private vision the deeds and thoughts of men. The creation of a work of art, like an act of love, is our one small yes at the center of a vast no.
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