The oligarchs think that the people are both dangerous and stupid. Their point is moot. But we do know that the oligarchs… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Fortunately, our audiences are used to a kind of boredom in the theatre, and if the writer is skillful, he will flatter… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
It is notable how little empathy is cultivated or valued in our society. I put this down to our traditional racism and… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
The Gores, I think, are a bit brighter than the Bushes, historically speaking. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
The period of Prohibition - called the noble experiment - brought on the greatest breakdown of law and order the United States… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
How to get people to vote against their interests and to really think against their interests is very clever. It's the cleverest… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Don't ever make the mistake with people like me thinking we are looking for heroes. There aren't any and if there were,… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
I suppose that one is always tempted to challenge those who think that they and they alone possess the truth or the… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
It is astonishing to think that millions of people in my time—now, too, I suppose—actually thought that at a given moment in… — 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'd still like to be the President, of course, and I think the best way to do that would be to raise… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Write what you know will always be excellent advice for those who ought not to write at all. Write what you think,… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
I sometimes think it is because they are so bad at expressing themselves verbally that writers take to pen and paper in… — 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
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 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
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
But women are always attracted to power. I do not think there could ever be a conqueror so bloody that most women… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years.… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Memory is strange. Scientifically, it is not a mechanical means of repeating something. I can think a thousand times about when I… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
[Norman Mailer] is against masturbation, he's against homosexuality. He believes that murder is essentially sexual. I think he's rather an anthology of… — 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
I don't think contemporary writers spend a lot of time reading each other. Particularly writers of the same nationality. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
The Americans only like things they can label, even if it kills them. Think of those poor Latin American writers. Some of… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
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
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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