“I have never been an eavesdropper, even in childhood. Not from any sense of virtue but because I really do not want to know what people think of me or, to be precise, what they say of me - often a different matter. I can usually imagine the unpleasant judgements, for we are what others needs us to be. That is why our reputations change so often and so drastically, reflecting no particular change in us, merely a change in the mood of those who observe us.”
“I have never been an eavesdropper, even in childhood. Not from any sense of virtue but because I really do not want to know what people think of me or, to be precise, what they say of me - often a different matter. I can usually imagine the unpleasant judgements, for we are what others needs us to be. That is why our reputations change so often and so drastically, reflecting no particular change in us, merely a change in the mood of those who observe us.”
Gore Vidal
“In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you're a great writer, you must say that you are.”
Gore Vidal“We are the United States of Amnesia, we learn nothing because we remember nothing.”
Gore Vidal“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.”
Gore Vidal“Life will be wonderful when men no longer fear dying. When the last superstitions are thrown out and we meet death with the same equanimity as life. No longer will children's minds be twisted by evil gods whose fantastic origin is in those barbaric tribes who feared death and lightning, who feared life. That's it: life is the villain to to those who preach reward in death, through grace and eternal bliss, or through dark revenge.”
Gore Vidal, Messiah“Each youth betrays considerable anxiety about the wedding night ahead.”
Gore Vidal“I think I have a normal threshold of anger, but it's true that I am, by nature, belligerent.”
Gore Vidal“The 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 Vidal“That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers.”
Gore Vidal“Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.”
Gore Vidal“My father once said something very shrewd about me to a woman journalist who had told him how courageous she thought I was for always speaking my mind. My father said, 'If you couldn't care less what anyone says about you, then it's not courage.'”
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