I think since Watergate people are interested in what the past of this country was really like.
Gore VidalApparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.
Gore Vidal[ New York ] is a place that worships incompetence particularly if it's combined with energy and paranoid self-confidence. Only in a city like New York could Truman Capote have made it, or John Simon.
Gore VidalLove and hate are so confused in your savage minds and the vibrations of the one are so very like those of the other that I can't always distinguish. You see, we neither love nor hate in my world. We simply have hobbies.
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