Many people in the United States happen to believe that United States policy is wrong in Vietnam and the Vietcong are correct… — 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
USA is suffering between imperialists and anti-imperialists. That is the situation. The most powerful country in the world is on its way… — 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
People are worse educated than they used to be. Certainly they are not very interested in reading books, as opposed to watching… — 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
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
In large Victorian houses with many rooms and heavy doors, the occupants could be mysterious and exciting to one another in a… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
We're the most captive nation of slaves that ever came along. The moral timidity of the average American is quite noticeable. Everybody's… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Capote I truly loathed. The way you might loathe an animal. A filthy animal that has found its way into the house. — 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
Laughing at someone else is an excellent way of learning how to laugh at oneself; and questioning what seem to be the… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Constant work, constant writing and constant revision. The real writer learns nothing from life. He is more like an oyster or a… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
I was brought up to believe that what is out-of-doors should stay there and not be encouraged in any way. — 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
Writing of history is our only heuristic principle. The Germans have a word for it, einfühlen. It is the ability to experience… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Religions are manipulated in order to serve those who govern society and not the other way around. — 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
I am an obsessive rewriter, doing one draft and then another and another, usually five. In a way, I have nothing to… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
The most interesting thing about writing is the way that it obliterates time. Three hours seem like three minutes. Then there is… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
The most interesting thing about writing is the way that it obliterates time. Three hours seem like three minutes. — 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
