Love, like a sense of humor, is now claimed by everyone even though Love, like a sense of humor, is rather more rare than not, and to most of us poor muddlers unbearable at full strength.
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 VidalI came out of Capitol Hill. Well, that's just not an ordinary background for a writer of the ordinary American sort.
Gore VidalThe best novelist of my generation is an Italian living in Paris, still working and improving - Italo Calvino.
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