Sometimes Terrifying Quotes by Gore Vidal

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Gore Vidal has 262 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• I was taught to read by my grandmother. Central to her method was a tale of unnatural love called 'The Duck and…
• Ideally, the writer needs no audience other than the few who understand that it is immodest and greedy to want more.
• Terrorism is a direct response to the crimes our government has committed against foreigners (besides which, the actual terrorists are within our…
• In a nation that has developed to a high art advertising, the creator who refuses to advertise himself is immediately suspected of…
• The most interesting thing about writing is the way that it obliterates time. Three hours seem like three minutes.
• To bring into the world an unwanted human being is as antisocial an act as murder.
• It is marvelous indeed to watch on television the rings of Saturn close; and to speculate on what we may yet find…
• History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true.

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