Gore Vidal Quotes About Truman

Quotes about: Truman

• I'm a true reactionary. Like all patricians, I'd like to restore the original republic, which we lost 40 years ago when Harry Truman imposed the national security state on us, which has kept us at war, hot or cold, for almost half a century, and it's got us $4 trillion into debt.

  Gore Vidal

  War, Years, Harry Truman

  "Fresh Air Remembers Writer And Critic Gore Vidal". www.npr.org. August 2, 2012.

• [ 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 Vidal

  New York, Self Confidence, Cities

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• Truman Capote has made lying an art. A minor art.

  Gore Vidal

  Art, Lying, Truman

  "Can They Stand the Heat?The Art of the Insult" by Mary Blume, International Herald Tribune, www.nytimes.com. January 3, 1998.

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