A Quote by Lawrence Sanders

I'm not Gore Vidal or William Buckley. — © Lawrence Sanders
I'm not Gore Vidal or William Buckley.
They don't make people like Gore Vidal and William F. Buckley anymore.
When Gore Vidal was coming up, there were three major channels, and he could count on a big audience when he debated someone like William F. Buckley on TV.
There will be a debate on Firing Line between Buckley and Gore Vidal on the proposition: "This nation cannot survive as long as the income of 50 percent of the population is below the median." Mr. Vidal will take the affirmative.
I knew Buckley - he was a friend of mine - and Steve Bannon is no William F. Buckley. Buckley marginalized the kooks. Bannon empowered them.
'Empire of Self' is a loving portrait of a very difficult man. Jay Parini, himself a gifted novelist, poet and biographer, has gone very deep into the 'black energy' of Gore Vidal's relentless narcissism and megalomania. Parini envisions an epic battle between Vidal's angelic and demonic sides, yet there's very little of the angel in Vidal.
In my mid-adolescence, my friend Terry Martin and I became obsessed with William F. Buckley. This makes more sense when you realize that we were living in Bible Belt farming country miles from civilization. Buckley seemed impossibly exotic.
If I were to win the Nobel Prize in Literature - which I think it's fairly safe to say is not going to happen - I would still expect the headline on my obituary to read: 'Christopher Buckley, son of William F. Buckley, Jr., is dead at 78.'
I knew who Buckley and Vidal were growing up, being a political junkie.
I used to read Gore Vidal books and think I was cool.
I loved Gore Vidal's Burr. That book gave me courage.
I read Noam Chomsky. I like some of Gore Vidal's stuff.
Gore Vidal has been a friend of mine for years, and he's one of the greatest writers in American history.
I always want to read Gore Vidal's nonfiction. Because everything he writes is an essay and it's worth reading.
We lived in a classless society. We'd spend a summer at Gore Vidal's house in Italy, but we were on and off welfare.
Writers since at least the heyday of Gore Vidal have bemoaned their audience's defection to other forms of entertainment.
The GOP was once the party of William F. Buckley Jr., Ronald Reagan, and John McCain.
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