All Gore Vidal Quotes
- The idea of a good society is something you do not need a religion and eternal punishment to buttress; you need a religion if you… Buttress
- a writer must always tell the truth (unless he's a journalist) Always Tell
- I believe there's something very salutary in, say, beating up a gay-bashing policeman. Preferably one fights through the courts, through the laws, through education, but… All
- Always a godfather, never a god. Funny
- Monotheism is easily the greatest disaster to befall the human race. Befall
- We are given our place in time as we are given our eyes: weak, strong, clear, squinting, the thing is not ours to choose. Well,… Been
- Actually, there is no such thing as a homosexual person, any more than there is such a thing as a heterosexual person. The words are… Acts
- The important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself. Emotion
- Write what you know will always be excellent advice for those who ought not to write at all. Write what you think, what you imagine,… Advice
- The first TV babies are now writing with a TV mind that has no attention span at all. All
- Love is a fan club with only two fans. Club
- If Henry Miller often sounded like a village idiot, it is because, like Whitman, he was the rest of the village as well. Henry
- There is something about the state putting the power to bully into the hands of subnormal, sadistic apes that makes my blood boil. Apes
- I have always regarded as a stroke of good fortune that I was not born or brought up in a small American town; they may… All
- Ayn Rand's 'philosophy' is nearly perfect in its immorality, which makes the size of her audience all the more ominous and symptomatic as we enter… All
- I wanted to be a politician and a movie star. But I was born a writer. If you're born that, you can't change it. You're… Born
- anyone who sings about love and harmony and life [john lennon] is dangerous to someone who sings about death and killing and subduing [Nixon] Anyone
- The American press exists for one purpose only, and that is to convince Americans that they are living in the greatest and most envied country… American
- Presidents have absolutely gone against the will of Congress. Congress hasn't declared a war since December 7, 1941, and yet we've been at war ever… Absolutely
- Of course his dust would be absorbed in other living things and to that degree at least he would exist again, though it was plain… Absorbed
- Because there is no cosmic point to the life that each of us perceives on this distant bit of dust at galaxy's edge, all the… All
- Miss Rand now tells us that what we have thought was right is really wrong. The lesson should have read: One for one and none… All
- There is only one party in the United States, the Property Party … and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat. Democrat
- We are the United States of Amnesia, we learn nothing because we remember nothing. Amnesia
- Ultimately, totalitarianism is the only sort of politics that can truly serve the sky-god's purpose. Any movement of a liberal nature endangers his authority and… Any