Gore Vidal Quote by Thomas E. Woods Jr

I got to know Gore Vidal quite well, up front and personal: his magnificent strengths and his appalling, almost other-worldly weaknesses.

— Fred Kaplan

Gore Vidal was a man of immense literary talent, some of which he used well, some of which he wasted.

— Fred Kaplan

“The evils of envy and hatred masquerading as humanitarian idealism had darkened his life from its outset, stamping him as a man quick to…

— Theodore Dalrymple

“He acted like a libertine of Europe with a genteel Southern propriety—and had all the morals of an emotionless psychopath. The two former masked…

— Nenia Campbell

Edmund Wilson was our greatest American literary critic because he was more than a literary critic: He was a fearless, even radical judge of…

— Edward Abbey

Would it be anything like a literary disaster if Gore Vidal were to fall silent? Easy. No. In fact, there is something to be…

— Lance Morrow

Dreadful is a poignant biography of a forgotten man who drank himself to death. It's a brilliant evocation of a self-hating gay novelist in…

— Edmund White

“With a perversity of judgement, which must be attributed to his not having by Nature a very strong head, the Graces, the Spirit, the…

— Jane Austen

“He was far from handsome certainly; and was drest in a snuff-coloured suit, of an uncouth make at the best, which, being shrunk with…

— Charles Dickens

“I mean consider how very horrible it is to read the accounts which sometimes meet us of cruelty inflicted on brute animals. For what…

— Andrew Linzey

“Edward had a personal horror of violence and never endorsed or excused it, though in a documentary he made about the conflict he said…

— Christopher Hitchens

“His moral courage led him to question a great wrong and refuse, backed by his men, to take part in a horrific slaughter of…

— Tom Bensing