The malady of civilized man is his knowledge of death. The good artist, like the wise man, addresses himself to life and… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Life will be wonderful when men no longer fear dying. When the last superstitions are thrown out and we meet death with… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
“I have been reading Plotinus all evening. He has the power to sooth me; and I find his sadness curiously comforting. Even… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
I’m not sentimental about anything. Life flows by, and you flow with it or you don’t. Move on and move out. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Once people get hung up on theology, they've lost sanity forever. More people have been killed in the name of Jesus Christ… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
In classical times, it was a capital offense to speculate upon the hour of a king's death or upon the identity of… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
The idea of a good society is something you do not need a religion and eternal punishment to buttress; you need a… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
In fact, life itself is a contradiction if only because birth is the direct cause, in every single case, of death — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
What is there to say, finally, except that pain is bad and pleasure good, life all, death nothing. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
To bring into the world an unwanted human being is as antisocial an act as murder. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
anyone who sings about love and harmony and life [john lennon] is dangerous to someone who sings about death and killing and… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
The Americans are clever. They thoroughly understand things that have to do with money, war, death, sickness. And there is also a… — 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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