I was raised in the Washington household of my grandfather Senator Thomas P. Gore of Oklahoma, and have known politicians intimately all my life.
From Gore Vidal
It is always a delicate matter, when a friend or acquaintance becomes president.
I was the most famous kid in the United States. That was 1936.
I hate nobody.
History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true.
My father had lifelong contempt for politicians.
In character, as it were, the writer settles for an impression of what happened rather than creating the sense of the thing happening.
Baseball is the favorite American sport because it's so slow. Any idiot can follow it. And just about any idiot can play it.
It is very difficult for a writer of my generation, if he is honest, to pretend indifference to the work of Somerset Maugham. He was always so entirely there.
American history has fallen more and more into the hands of academics.
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