Gore Vidal Quotes
Gore Vidal Quotes
You can't really succeed with a novel anyway; they're too big. It's like city planning. You can't plan a perfect city because there's too much going on that you can't take into account. You can, however, write a perfect sentence now and then. I have.
3839Each writer is born with a repertory company in his head.
1575I sometimes think it is because they are so bad at expressing themselves verbally that writers take to pen and paper in the first place
3862The important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.
1233Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.
3157To a born-again atheist like myself, it is clear that each of us has multiple selves, talents, perceptions. But to the Roman Catholic, unity is all.
2672As 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.
1206As the age of television progresses the Reagans will be the rule, not the exception. To be perfect for television is all a President has to be these days.
1094There is something about the state putting the power to bully into the hands of subnormal, sadistic apes that makes my blood boil.
3263Presidents have absolutely gone against the will of Congress. Congress hasn't declared a war since December 7, 1941, and yet we've been at war ever since with somebody or other in order to justify the war machine. Now we have alienated almost the entire earth
3567Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.
1152For the average American freedom of speech is simply the freedom to repeat what everyone else is saying and no more.
2277It was of course Jefferson’s gift at one time or another to put with eloquence the “right” answer to every moral question. In practice, however, he seldom deviated from an opportunistic course, calculated to bring him power.
3846Eventually all things are known. And few matter.
2810Never pass up a chance to have sex or appear on television.
2597Once people get hung up on theology, they've lost sanity forever. More people have been killed in the name of Jesus Christ than any other name in the history of the world.
4825History is idle gossip about a happening whose truth is lost the instant it has taken place.
4138Love and hate are so confused in your savage minds and the vibrations of the one are so very like those of the other that I can't always distinguish. You see, we neither love nor hate in my world. We simply have hobbies.
1974I regard monotheism as the greatest disaster ever to befall the human race. I see no good in Judaism, Christianity, or Islam - good people, yes, but any religion based on a single, well, frenzied and virulent god, is not as useful to the human race as, say, Confucianism, which is not a religion but an ethical and educational system.
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