4 Gore Vidal Quotes on Work

Gore Vidal quotes on work

2. The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.

12. In any case, write what you know will always be excellent advice to those who ought not to write at all.

31. I shared, naturally, in that hatred of organized labor which has been the one political constant in my lifetime, culminating in Ronald Reagan's most popular gesture, the smashing of the air-controllers' union. No alternative view of organized labor has ever come to us through the popular media. If labor leaders were not crooks like Jimmy Hoffa, they were in the pay of Moscow.

57. I went into a line of work in which jealousy is the principal emotion between practitioners. I don't think I ever suffered from it, because there was no need. But I was aware of it in others, and I found it a regrettable fault.