Gore Vidal Quote

It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, however suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true.


"French Letters: The Theory of the New Novel," Encounter magazine (December 1967)


It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, however suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true.

It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, however suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true.

It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, however suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true.

It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, however suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true.