All Gore Vidal Quotes
- Half the American population no longer reads newspapers: plainly, they are the clever half. American
- As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action... Action
- Sex is a continuum. You go through different phases along life's way... and if you don't, you've been sort of cheated. Along
- Contrary to vulgar legend the lives of great ballerinas are not entirely given up to a few minutes of graceful movement every night followed by… Ballerina
- The great unmentionable evil at the center of our culture is monotheism. From a barbaric Bronze Age text known as the Old Testament, three anti-human… Afflicted
- As one gets older, litigation replaces sex. Funny
- Precocious talents mature slowly if at all. All
- Television is a great leveler. You always end up sounding like the people who ask the questions. Always End
- Religions are manipulated in order to serve those who govern society and not the other way around. Govern
- My father had a deep and lifelong contempt for politicians in general ("They tell lies," he used to say with wonder, "even when they don't… Contempt
- Lonely children often have imaginary playmates but I was never lonely; rather, I was solitary, and wanted no company at all other than books and… All
- Nothing that Shakespeare ever invented was to equal Lincoln's invention of himself and, in the process, us. Equal
- At least when the Emperor Justinian, a sky-god man, decided to outlaw sodomy, he had to come up with a good practical reason, which he… Always Eager
- We're supposed to procreate and society, god knows, is ferocious on the subject. Heterosexuality is considered such a great and natural good that you have… Act
- That peculiarly American religion, President-worship. American
- I have begun writing what I have said I'd never write, a memoir ("I am not my own subject," I used to say with icy… Begun
- Now you have people in Washington who have no interest in the country at all. They're interested in their companies, their corporations grabbing Caspian oil. All
- The greatest pleasure when I started making money was not buying cars or yachts but finding myself able to have as many freshly typed drafts… Able
- Sex is. There is nothing more to be done about it. Sex builds no roads, writes no novels and sex certainly gives no meaning to… Builds
- Until the rise of American advertising, it never occurred to anyone anywhere in the world that the teenager was a captive in a hostile world… Adult