Quote: Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates. [Gore Vidal]
Quote: Never have children, only grand children. [Gore Vidal]
Quote: There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem. [Gore Vidal]
Quote: If most men and women were forced to rely upon physical charm to attract lovers, their sexual lives would be not only meager but in a youth-worshiping country like America painfully brief. [Gore Vidal]
Quote: Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies. [Gore Vidal]
Quote: It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true. [Gore Vidal]
Quote: Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith. [Gore Vidal]
Quote: The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western World. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity -- much less dissent. [Gore Vidal]
Quote: As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests [Gore Vidal]
Quote: Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both die. [Gore Vidal]
Quote: There is hardly an American male of my generation who has not at one time or another tried to master the victory cry of the great ape as it issued from the androgynous chest of Johnny Weissmuller, to the accompaniment of thousands of arms and legs snapping during attempts to swing from tree to tree in the backyards of the Republic. [Gore Vidal]
Quote: Never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television. [Gore Vidal]
Quote: It is difficult to find a reputable American historian who will acknowledge the crude fact that a Franklin Roosevelt, say, wanted to be President merely to wield power, to be famed and to be feared. To learn this simple fact one must wade through a sea of [Gore Vidal]
Quote: Style is knowing who you are, what to say, and not giving a damn. [Gore Vidal]
Quote: A talent for drama is not a talent for writing, but is an ability to articulate human relationships. [Gore Vidal]
Quote: There is no such thing as a homosexual or a heterosexual person. There are only homo -- or heterosexual acts. Most people are a mixture of impulses if not practices. [Gore Vidal]
Quote: 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. [Gore Vidal]
Quote: All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world. [Gore Vidal]
Quote: The last best hope of earth, two trillion dollars in debt, is spinning out of control, and all we can do is stare at a flickering cathode-ray tube as Ollie answers questions on TV while the press, resolutely irrelevant as ever, asks politicians if they have committed adultery. From V-J Day 1945 to this has been, my fellow countrymen, a perfect nightmare. [Gore Vidal]
Quote: Sex is. There is nothing more to be done about it. Sex builds no roads, writes no novels and sex certainly gives no meaning to anything in life but itself. [Gore Vidal]
Quote: I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television. [Gore Vidal]
Quote: To a man, ornithologists are tall, slender, and bearded so that they can stand motionless for hours, imitating kindly trees, as they watch for birds. [Gore Vidal]
Quote: Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences. [Gore Vidal]
Quote: On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died. [Gore Vidal]
Quote: Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made. [Gore Vidal]