It is ironic that a nation that has never experienced a coup d'etat should be so obsessed with the idea of conspiracy. Gore Vidal More Quotes by Gore Vidal More Quotes From Gore Vidal Rome ... at its most decadent, had never thought of hiring an actor to go through the motions of being an emperor while the Praetorian Guard ruled. Gore Vidal rome political actors a writer must always tell the truth (unless he's a journalist) Gore Vidal journalist telling-the-truth Since nothing is free, to each his price. Gore Vidal Ideally, the writer needs no audience other than the few who understand that it is immodest and greedy to want more. Gore Vidal want inspirational needs There was more of a flow to my output of writing in the past, certainly. Having no contemporaries left means you cannot say, "Well, so-and-so will like this," which you do when you're younger. You realize there is no so-and-so anymore. You are your own so-and-so. There is a bleak side to it. Gore Vidal writing mean past The fool is often oblivious of his own gaucherie. Gore Vidal oblivious fool stupidity In a nation that has developed to a high art advertising, the creator who refuses to advertise himself is immediately suspected of having no product worth selling. Gore Vidal advertising selling art Everything's wrong on Wikipedia. Gore Vidal wikipedia It is marvelous indeed to watch on television the rings of Saturn close; and to speculate on what we may yet find at galaxy's edge. But in the process, we have lost the human element; not to mention the high hope of those quaint days when flight would create one world. Instead of one world, we have star wars, and a future in which dumb dented human toys will drift mindlessly about the cosmos long after our small planet's dead. Gore Vidal stars war long These little books I write, such as The End of Freedom, about the post-9/11 political climate in the United States, sell in the hundreds of thousands of copies. Whereas, I hear novels on marriage are not selling. This is perhaps not the judgment of God, but it is certainly that of history. Gore Vidal political writing book Freud did some serious damage to American literature - a lot of writers began therapy in the 1940s, after which they all became terribly egocentric. Gore Vidal egocentric serious literature The Americans only like things they can label, even if it kills them. Think of those poor Latin American writers. Some of them are very good. But the "magical realism" label has absolutely ruined them. The critics are like tourists who return from a trip saying they've "done" Machu Picchu: "Okay, we've done magical realism," so now we can throw it out. Gore Vidal done latin thinking I spend most of my time in California. I feel I am fueled by rage and by the political climate there. I am angry most of the time when I am there, which might be unbearable for someone else, but for me it's fuel for my writing. Gore Vidal rage political writing The most powerful country in the world is on its way back to the Stone Age. They say, "We were elected by the gods to govern the planet." But the truth is that what counts is getting hold of the last oil reserves. Instead of finding alternative energy sources, we try to subjugate entire regions of the world. People do not understand that by doing this, the country is going to absolute ruin. Gore Vidal powerful country people Nixon was a Southern Rim President, and so antipathetic to the old guard. Gore Vidal rims southern president I believe it's my pastoral duty to convert friends to atheism. Gore Vidal i-believe atheism believe The New York Times is the worst in that hardly anybody can write English over there. Most of it reads like slight translations from the German. Gore Vidal worst new-york writing I'd still like to be the President, of course, and I think the best way to do that would be to raise an army and seize the Capital. This strikes me as true democracy. Gore Vidal democracy army thinking I think since Watergate people are interested in what the past of this country was really like. Gore Vidal country past thinking To have an interest in both sexes is equally normal. Whether it's practiced or not is something else. Some do. Some don't. Gore Vidal normal interest sex
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