Many people in the United States happen to believe that United States policy is wrong in Vietnam and the Vietcong are correct… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
A huge number of Americans still believe that Saddam Hussein was responsible for 9/11. You have a people that don't know anything… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Every four years the naive half who vote are encouraged to believe that if we can elect a really nice man or… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
They are longing for a war with Iran. Iran is no more a harm to us than was Iraq or Afghanistan. They… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Maybe there is no good God. But there is definitely a devil, and his predominant passion is the religion of Protestant fundamentalists.… — 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
I was brought up to believe that what is out-of-doors should stay there and not be encouraged in any way. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
When you control opinion, as corporate America controls opinion in the United States by owning the media, you can make the masses… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Celebrities are invariably celebrity-mad, just as liars always believe liars. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
[Norman Mailer] is against masturbation, he's against homosexuality. He believes that murder is essentially sexual. I think he's rather an anthology of… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise,… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
I believe there's something very salutary in, say, beating up a gay-bashing policeman. Preferably one fights through the courts, through the laws,… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
I do not much care for nature, and believe that flowers belong in vases rather than loose and untidy on the ground. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
One of the most fascinating aspects of politician-watching is trying to determine to what extent any politician believes what he says. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Every four years the naive half who vote are encouraged to believe that if we can elect a really nice man or… — 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 Image
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 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
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 Image
Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
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 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
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