U.S. certainly are not warlike. We don't want that. We want to make money, which I always thought was one of the… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
There's a lot to be said for being nouveau riche, and the Reagans mean to say it all. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
The greatest pleasure when I started making money was not buying cars or yachts but finding myself able to have as many… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
I have been saying for the some time now that America has only one party - the property party. It's the party… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
When Ronald Reagan's career in show business came to an end, he was hired to impersonate, first, a California governor and then… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
It is vice to go to bed with someone you are not married to or have someone of your own sex or… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Country is run by... financial powers & corporate interests [who] send their lawyers to Congress to make laws so that they don't… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
I think the Chinese will say the hell with you and pull their money out of the United States. That's the end… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
By the end of World War II, we were the most powerful and least damaged of the great nations. We also had… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
When you are brought up in a zoo, you know what's going on in the monkey house. You see a couple of… — 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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