All Gore Vidal Quotes
- It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how… Age
- Write something, even if it's just a suicide note. Note
- We must declare ourselves, become known; allow the world to discover this subterranean life of ours which connects kings and farm boys, artists and clerks.… Allow
- All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself. Alarm
- In writing and politicking, it's best not to think about it, just do it. Best
- Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either. Book
- There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise. Advise
- Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host… Attacked
- On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died. American
- In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you're a great writer, you must say that you are. America
- The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at… All
- There is no such thing as a homosexual or a heterosexual person. There are only homo- or heterosexual acts. Most people are a mixture of… Acts
- One is sorry one could not have taken both branches of the road. But we were not allotted multiple selves. Allotted
- I'm all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults. Adult
- The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes. Accumulate
- The behaviour of President Bush on 11 September certainly gives rise to not unnatural suspicions. Behaviour
- What other culture could have produced someone like Hemmingway and not seen the joke? Culture
- Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age. Age
- To a man, ornithologists are tall, slender, and bearded so that they can stand motionless for hours, imitating kindly trees, as they watch for birds. Bearded
- Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made. Active