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Only Quotes by Gore Vidal
- If most men and women were forced to rely upon physical charm to attract lovers, their sexual lives would be not only meager but in…
- I’ve always said, ‘I have nothing to say, only to add.’ And it’s with each addition that the writing gets done. The first draft of…
- Which other major religion is based on the Godhead incarnate being whipped, tacked to a cross, stabbed? Only the Marquis de Sade could have made…
- To justify and extol human greed and egotism is to my mind not only immoral, but evil.
- 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…
- 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…
- Of course, it is possible for any citizen with time to spare, and a canny eye, to work out what is actually going on, but…
- Never have children, only grandchildren.
- Andy Warhol is the only genius I've ever known with an I.Q. of 60.
- All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.
- 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…
- I'm all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.
- 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…
- Love is a fan club with only two fans.
- 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…
- 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…
- There is only one party in the United States, the Property Party … and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat.
- 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…
- In fact, life itself is a contradiction if only because birth is the direct cause, in every single case, of death
- 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.…
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- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford. — Hannah Arendt
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle