There are two things you never turn down: sex and appearing on television. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
I suspect that one of the reasons we create fiction is to make sex exciting. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Nothing is durable, I think anybody who thinks sex is durable is going to have a lot of grief. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
I can understand companionship. I can understand bought sex in the afternoon. I cannot understand the love affair. — 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
To have an interest in both sexes is equally normal. Whether it's practiced or not is something else. Some do. Some don't. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Sex is. There is nothing more to be done about it. Sex builds no roads, writes no novels and sex certainly gives… — 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
Many human beings enjoy sexual relations with their own sex; many don't; many respond to both. This plurality is part of our… — 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
The British are absolutely hung up on class, and whenever they start to really - class for the English is like sex… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
I'm devoted to promiscuity, and always have been. I believe the more you do, the better it is for you. I'm a… — 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
The ideal to which John Adams subscribed-that we would be a nation of laws, not of men-was quickly subverted when the churches… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Whether you have an abortion, what you put in your own body, with whom you have sex - these are not affairs… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
“If one starts with the anatomical difference, which even a patriarchal Viennese novelist was able to see was destiny, then one begins… — 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
