All Gore Vidal Quotes
- The most interesting thing about writing is the way that it obliterates time. Three hours seem like three minutes. Then there is the business of… All
- Constant work, constant writing and constant revision. The real writer learns nothing from life. He is more like an oyster or a sponge. What he… Any
- Nothing human is finally calculable; even to ourselves we are strange. Calculable
- Never offend an enemy in a small way. Enemy
- History is idle gossip about a happening whose truth is lost the instant it has taken place. Gossip
- Since nothing is free, to each his price. Each
- Life will be wonderful when men no longer fear dying. When the last superstitions are thrown out and we meet death with the same equanimity… Barbaric
- We affect one another quite enough merely by existing. Whenever the stars cross, or is it comets? fragments pass briefly from one orbit to another.… Affect
- Reality is something the human race doesn't handle very well. Handle
- In fact, life itself is a contradiction if only because birth is the direct cause, in every single case, of death Birth
- Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn. Anger
- 'Politics' is made up of two words, 'poli,' which is Greek for 'many,' and 'tics,' which are blood-sucking insects. Blood
- It is difficult to find a reputable American historian who will acknowledge the crude fact that a Franklin Roosevelt, say, wanted to be President merely… Acknowledge
- It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four percent of the people. Difference
- Liberal comes from the Latin liberalis, which means pertaining to a free man. In politics, to be liberal is to want to extend democracy through… Change
- Our rulers for more than half a century have made sure that we are never to be told the truth about anything that our government… Century
- We should stop going around babbling about how we're the greatest democracy on earth, when we're not even a democracy. We are a sort of… Babbling
- Our only political party has two right wings, one called Republican, the other Democratic. But Henry Adams figured all that out back in the 1890s.… Adams
- I regard monotheism as the greatest disaster ever to befall the human race. I see no good in Judaism, Christianity, or Islam - good people,… Any
- I'm a born - again atheist. Atheist
- Religions sprang up among men to deal with the sometimes terrifying aspects of existence, to make sense out of the senseless, to explain things we… Among
- Teaching has ruined more American novelists than drink. American
- Each writer is born with a repertory company in his head. Shakespeare has perhaps 20 players. ... I have 10 or so, and thats a… Born
- The brain that doesn't feed itself, eats itself. Brain
- What other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke? Culture