There is no such thing as a homosexual or a heterosexual person. There are only homo- or heterosexual acts. Most people are… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Actually, there is no such thing as a homosexual person, any more than there is such a thing as a heterosexual person.… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Sex was a great no-no for Americans, so that was obviously an attraction to the writers, and since sex is a great… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
From the age of 1 to 6 there is a small percentage that is exclusively homosexual, a small percentage heterosexual and there's… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Instead of finding alternative energy sources, we try to subjugate entire regions of the world. People do not understand that by doing… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
No one reads novels anymore. And I don't see the situation improving. People prefer video games, reality TV, and films. There are… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
I regard monotheism as the greatest disaster ever to befall the human race. I see no good in Judaism, Christianity, or Islam… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
We have been at war almost constantly since the last century. And it has not helped our institutions. Congress no longer represents… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Since I ought to be arrogant, impressed with my social position, overwhelmed by my beauty, therefore I am. Actually I was never… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
People in my situation get to read about themselves whether they want to or not. It's generally wrong. Or oversimplified - which… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
It doesn't actually make any difference whether the President is Republican or Democrat. The genius of the American ruling class is that… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Young people are more hopeful at a certain age than adults, but I suspect that's glandular. As for children, I keep as… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
People have forgotten the effects of prohibition. We have become the United Statesof Amnesia. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
These people [Bush Administration] are for the most part rip-off artists. Notice that they're all gas and oil men from Cheney, to… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Fifty percent of people won't vote, and fifty percent don't read newspapers. I hope it's the same fifty percent. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
If you are at the mercy of what they call print interviews and the mercy of people who write about you, they… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
The United States was founded by the brightest people in the country — and we haven't seen them since. — 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
Once people get hung up on theology, they've lost sanity forever. More people have been killed in the name of Jesus Christ… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
The American press exists for one purpose only, and that is to convince Americans that they are living in the greatest and… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Without communism ... our state lacks a Wizard of Oz to terrify all the people all the time. So the state looks… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
When you come from a family that has been political, and I was brought up by my grandfather in the Senate, my… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
The most powerful country in the world is on its way back to the Stone Age. They say, "We were elected by… — 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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