There are two things you never turn down: sex and appearing on television. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Nothing is durable, I think anybody who thinks sex is durable is going to have a lot of grief. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Sex is a continuum. You go through different phases along life's way... and if you don't, you've been sort of cheated. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
“It is curious how little interested we are in the sexual desires of those who do not attract us.” — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Sex is. There is nothing more to be done about it. Sex builds no roads, writes no novels and sex certainly gives… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
I'm devoted to promiscuity, and always have been. I believe the more you do, the better it is for you. I'm a… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
If most men and women were forced to rely upon physical charm to attract lovers, their sexual lives would be not only… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
It is vice to go to bed with someone you are not married to or have someone of your own sex or… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Many human beings enjoy sexual relations with their own sex; many don't; many respond to both. This plurality is part of our… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Sex was a great no-no for Americans, so that was obviously an attraction to the writers, and since sex is a great… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
There is only one party in the United States, the Property Party...and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat. Republicans are a bit… — Gore Vidal Copy Share
Many people in the United States happen to believe that United States policy is wrong in Vietnam and the Vietcong are correct in wanting… — Gore Vidal Copy Share
“It is curious how little interested we are in the sexual desires of those who do not attract us.” — Gore Vidal Copy Share
This separation was absolute in our original Republic. But the sky-godders do not give up easily. In the 1950s they actually got the phrase… — Gore Vidal Copy Share
The oligarchs think that the people are both dangerous and stupid. Their point is moot. But we do know that the oligarchs are a… — Gore Vidal Copy Share
As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying… — Gore Vidal Copy Share
Rome ... at its most decadent, had never thought of hiring an actor to go through the motions of being an emperor while the… — Gore Vidal Copy Share
History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true. — Gore Vidal Copy Share
The malady of civilized man is his knowledge of death. The good artist, like the wise man, addresses himself to life and invests with… — Gore Vidal Copy Share
Sex is a continuum. You go through different phases along life's way... and if you don't, you've been sort of cheated. — Gore Vidal Copy Share
All I want is that Americans still be able to read the alphabet in a hundred years. I am not very ambitious. — Gore Vidal Copy Share
I do not admire 'the people,' as such. No one really does. Their folk wisdom is usually false, their instincts predatory. Even their sense… — Gore Vidal Copy Share
“One of the problems of a society as tightly controlled as ours is that we get so little information about what those of our… — Gore Vidal Copy Share
