God, or what have you, will not be found at the far end of a syllogism, no matter how brilliantly phrased or… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
What matters finally is not the world's judgment of oneself but one's own judgment of the world.... Any writer who lacks this… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
In matters of faith, inconvenient evidence is always suppressed while contradictions go unnoticed. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Yet in a society of conflicting interests the only democratic way in which matters can be improved is through politics, and politics… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Gentlemen are not supposed to tell the truth about their sex lives, nor are ladies, for that matter. Of course Clinton lied… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
It is of no consequence to you what others think of you. What matters is what you think of them. That is… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Before the word gay had really been invented, was there's no such thing. Only a country, basically as mindless about these matters… — 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
Eisenhower's career demonstrated how it is possible to fool all the people all the time...'I may be stupid,' he once said at… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
What begins with comedy ends with comedy... in my short view of the matter. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
I was born a writer. When that happens, you have no choice in the matter. — 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
