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I think since Watergate people are interested in what the past of this country was really like.

I think since Watergate people are interested in what the past of this country was really like.

Gore Vidal

Country, Past, Thinking

Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

To have an interest in both sexes is equally normal. Whether it's practiced or not is something else. Some do. Some don't.

Gore Vidal

Sex, Normal, Interest

Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

I spend most of my time in California. I feel I am fueled by rage and by the political climate there. I am angry most of the time when I am there, which might be unbearable for someone else, but for me it's fuel for my writing.

Gore Vidal

Writing, Political, Rage

Source: www.guernicamag.com

These little books I write, such as The End of Freedom, about the post-9/11 political climate in the United States, sell in the hundreds of thousands of copies. Whereas, I hear novels on marriage are not selling. This is perhaps not the judgment of God, but it is certainly that of history.

Gore Vidal

Book, Writing, Political

Source: www.guernicamag.com

Freud did some serious damage to American literature - a lot of writers began therapy in the 1940s, after which they all became terribly egocentric.

Gore Vidal

Literature, Serious, Egocentric

Source: www.guernicamag.com

The Americans only like things they can label, even if it kills them. Think of those poor Latin American writers. Some of them are very good. But the "magical realism" label has absolutely ruined them. The critics are like tourists who return from a trip saying they've "done" Machu Picchu: "Okay, we've done magical realism," so now we can throw it out.

Gore Vidal

Latin, Thinking, Done

Source: www.guernicamag.com