Vidal Wrote

Famous quotes containing the words vidal and/or wrote:

    Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.
    —Gore Vidal (b. 1925)

    Somerset Maugham ... wrote somewhere that “Nobody is any better than he ought to be.”... I carried it along with me as a working philosophy, but I suppose that finally I would have to take exception to the thought ... or else the universe is just an elaborate clock.
    Norman Mailer (b. 1923)