To preserve the human race, it is now necessary to reorganize society. To this end, an Authority must be created with the power to control human population, to redistribute food, to purify air, water, soil, to re-pattern the cities. Gore Vidal airauthoritycity share on social
In character, as it were, the writer settles for an impression of what happened rather than creating the sense of the thing happening. Gore Vidal charactercreatehappen Change image and share on social
That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers. Gore Vidal badbookbusyness Change image and share on social
I was raised in the Washington household of my grandfather Senator Thomas P. Gore of Oklahoma, and have known politicians intimately all my life. Gore Vidal goregrandfatherhousehold Change image and share on social
Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either. Gore Vidal bookevidencefigure Change image and share on social
It is true, as Sartre once wrote, referring to French Army atrocities in Algeria, that the real tragedy in our time is that any of us can be, interchangeably, victim or torturer. Gore Vidal algeriaarmyatrocity Change image and share on social
Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale. Gore Vidal briberydemocracyform Change image and share on social
Walter Lippmann suggests that the United States behaves like a society which thinks it is complete with no more to accomplish; that, for better or worse, we are what we are, and the only danger to our comfort is external. Gore Vidal accomplishbadlybehave share on social
I think I have a normal threshold of anger, but it's true that I am, by nature, belligerent. Gore Vidal angerbelligerentnature Change image and share on social
