I am glad my life is coming to an end. To think that it might last another five hundred years, now that… — 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
Religions sprang up among men to deal with the sometimes terrifying aspects of existence, to make sense out of the senseless, to… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
“That my plans have lately gone somewhat awry is the sort of risk one must take if life is to be superb.” — 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
Before the cards that one is dealt by life are the cards that fate has dealt: one's family. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
The real writer learns nothing from life. He is more like an oyster or a sponge. — 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
“As I looked back over my life, I realized that I enjoyed nothing--not art, not sex--more than going to the movies. ” — 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
