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
You will be favorable to Burr, and so must fail, because the American reader cannot bear a surprise. He knows that this… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
In large Victorian houses with many rooms and heavy doors, the occupants could be mysterious and exciting to one another in a… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
What is in question is a kind of book reviewing which seems to be more and more popular: the loose putting down… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Everybody is bisexual, and that is a fact of human nature. Some people practice both, and some practice one thing, and some… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
It is difficult to find a reputable American historian who will acknowledge the crude fact that a Franklin Roosevelt, say, wanted to… — 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
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
I think we're going to have to accept the fact the U.S. is off the world map. We are not 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 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
