All Gore Vidal Quotes
- I was taught to read by my grandmother. Central to her method was a tale of unnatural love called 'The Duck and the Kangaroo'. Then,… Additional
- Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild. Doe
- A talent for drama is not a talent for writing, but is ability to articulate human relationships. Ability
- Ideally, the writer needs no audience other than the few who understand that it is immodest and greedy to want more. Audience
- The fool is often oblivious of his own gaucherie. Fool
- Terrorism is a direct response to the crimes our government has committed against foreigners (besides which, the actual terrorists are within our own government) Actual
- If [drugs] didn't exist, our government would have to invent them, the better to enact laws aimed at keeping the citizens "sinless and obedient." Aimed
- For the average American, freedom of speech is simply the freedom to repeat what everyone else is saying and no more. American
- Christianity is such a silly religion. Atheism
- In a nation that has developed to a high art advertising, the creator who refuses to advertise himself is immediately suspected of having no product… Advertise
- The most interesting thing about writing is the way that it obliterates time. Three hours seem like three minutes. Hours
- Country is run by... financial powers & corporate interests [who] send their lawyers to Congress to make laws so that they don't have to pay… Congress
- The word 'radical' derives from the Latin word for root. Therefore, if you want to get to the root of anything you must be radical.… Accident
- What is a political party but a conspiracy? Conspiracy
- I do not admire 'the people,' as such. No one really does. Their folk wisdom is usually false, their instincts predatory. Even their sense of… Admire
- To bring into the world an unwanted human being is as antisocial an act as murder. Act
- It is marvelous indeed to watch on television the rings of Saturn close; and to speculate on what we may yet find at galaxy's edge.… Close
- Eisenhower's career demonstrated how it is possible to fool all the people all the time...'I may be stupid,' he once said at a press conference,… All
- If most men and women were forced to rely upon physical charm to attract lovers, their sexual lives would be not only meager but in… America
- Young people are more hopeful at a certain age than adults, but I suspect that's glandular. As for children, I keep as far from them… Adults
- I suspect that one of the reasons we create fiction is to make sex exciting. Create
- I can understand companionship. I can understand bought sex in the afternoon. I cannot understand the love affair. Affair
- Rome ... at its most decadent, had never thought of hiring an actor to go through the motions of being an emperor while the Praetorian… Actor
- The hatred Americans have for their own government is pathological ... at one level it is simply thwarted greed: since our religion is making a… Act
- Envy is the central fact of American life. American