All Gore Vidal Quotes
- Art is not a democracy, in fact art is the enemy of democracy Art
- A current pejorative adjective is narcissistic. Generally, a narcissist is anyone better looking than you are, but lately the adective is often applied to those… Adjective
- It is ironic that a nation that has never experienced a coup d'etat should be so obsessed with the idea of conspiracy. Conspiracy
- The American vice is explanation. American
- Astronauts: rotarians in outer space. Astronaut
- Despite the warnings of other times, the impetuous and the confident continue their indiscriminate cultivation of weeds at the expense of occasional flowers. Confident
- It is curious how often one prefers his enemies to his friends. Curious
- Novels, except as aids to masturbation, play no part in contemporary life. Aids
- The family in the West is finished... its origin was economic, not biological... the odd group of strangers that make up every family no longer… Any
- Many human beings enjoy sexual relations with their own sex; many don't; many respond to both. This plurality is part of our nature and not… Beings
- Universities are filled with poets and novelists conducting demure and careful lives in imitation of Eliot and Forster and those others who (through what seems… Been
- Gentlemen are not supposed to tell the truth about their sex lives, nor are ladies, for that matter. Of course Clinton lied - as would… Anybody
- It never occurred to any Enlightenment figure in the eighteenth century that law was not preferable to man. Any
- Love, like a sense of humor, is now claimed by everyone even though Love, like a sense of humor, is rather more rare than not,… Claimed
- It is reasonable to assume that, by and large, what is not read now will not be read, ever. It is also reasonable to assume… Assume
- All Americans born between 1890 and 1945 wanted to be movie stars. All
- In large Victorian houses with many rooms and heavy doors, the occupants could be mysterious and exciting to one another in a way that those… Byron
- In a society like ours, politics is improvisation. To the artful dodger rather than the true believer goes the prize. Artful
- One of the most fascinating aspects of politician-watching is trying to determine to what extent any politician believes what he says. Any
- Yet in a society of conflicting interests the only democratic way in which matters can be improved is through politics, and politics means the compromising… Achieve