Anybody who is stupid enough to want to be remembered deserves to be forgotten right now. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
If the splitter of hairs has a sharp enough knife, the fact of life itself can be chopped into nothing. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
For true happiness, it is not enough to be successful oneself . . . one's friends must fail. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Because there is no cosmic point to the life that each of us perceives on this distant bit of dust at galaxy's… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Of course his dust would be absorbed in other living things and to that degree at least he would exist again, though… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
We affect one another quite enough merely by existing. Whenever the stars cross, or is it comets? fragments pass briefly from one… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Private lives should be no business of the State. The State is bad enough as it is. It cannot educate or medicate… — 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
