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Top 400 Gore Vidal Quotes (2024 Update)
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Gore Vidal Quote: “After acquiring Texas, Polk deliberately started a war with Mexico because, as he later told the historian George Bancroft, we had to acquire California. Thanks to Polk, we did.”
Gore Vidal Quote: “To be categorized is, simply, to be enslaved.”
Gore Vidal Quote: “I was brought up to believe that what is out-of-doors should stay there and not be encouraged in any way.”
Gore Vidal Quote: “Americans are not only a less homogenous population than we were when we were 3 million ex-colonists, but we’re less educated. On top of that, we have constant misinformation and manipulation by media.”
Gore Vidal Quote: “If you’re not part of that club, as I certainly am not, you are not presidential.”
Gore Vidal Quote: “A court is the most depressing place on earth. Wherever there is a throne, one may observe in rich detail every folly and wickedness of which man is capable, enameled with manners and gilded with hypocrisy.”
Gore Vidal Quote: “All I want is that Americans still be able to read the alphabet in a hundred years. I am not very ambitious.”
Gore Vidal Quote: “Since the individual’s desire to dominate his environment is not a desirable trait in a society which every day grows more and more confining, the average man must take to daydreaming.”
Gore Vidal Quote: “The whole point to American journalism is what ought to be true is true.”
Gore Vidal Quote: “The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.”
Gore Vidal Quote: “Most writers write books that they wouldn’t read. I ought to know; I’ve done it myself.”
Gore Vidal Quote: “Contrary to accepted legend, the Philadelphians did not at all mind the presence of the British army in their city; in fact, many of them hoped that Washington would soon be caught and hanged, putting an end to those disruptions and discomforts which had been set in motion by the ambitions of a number of greedy and vain lawyers shrewdly able to use as cover for their private designs Jefferson’s high-minded platitudes and cloudy political theorizings. Shortly.”
Gore Vidal Quote: “Our rulers for more than half a century have made sure that we are never to be told the truth about anything that our government has done to other people, not to mention our own.”
Gore Vidal Quote: “Do not regulate the private lives of people because, if you do, they will become angry and antisocial, and they will get what they want from criminals who work in perfect freedom because they know how to pay off the police.”
Gore Vidal Quote: “You know what Mr. Bates called me?” Seward shook his head with wonder. “An unprincipled liar. And here I am one of the most heavily principled men in politics.” Lincoln chuckled. In every way, making allowances for regional differences, Seward’s humor was not unlike his own. “And since you’re a smart man, Governor, you never actually lie. Smart men never have to.”
Gore Vidal Quote: “Obviously I’m in favor of protecting the rights of everybody: gay, black, women, what have you, American Indians.”
Gore Vidal Quote: “If you want to rise in politics in the United States, there is one subject you must stay away from, and that is politics.”
Gore Vidal Quote: “The planet Venus, a circle of silver in a green sky, pierced the edge of the evening while the wintry woods darkened about me and in the stillness the regular sound of my footsteps striking the pavement was like a the rhythmic beating of a giant stone heart.”
Gore Vidal Quote: “I deny that there’s such a thing as a gay person. I deny there’s such a thing as a heterosexual person.”
Gore Vidal Quote: “From the age of 1 to 6 there is a small percentage that is exclusively homosexual, a small percentage heterosexual and there’s a wide band in the middle of people who respond to various stimuli. A little bit here, a little more there.”
Gore Vidal Quote: “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 adjectives describing sexual acts, not people. The sexual acts are entirely normal; if they were not, no one would perform them.”
Gore Vidal Quote: “It is my task always to know, particularly when I don’t.”
Gore Vidal Quote: “I like the distance that Europe gives me. Also if I stayed in America I’d be a full-time politician and have no time for writing, which is why I went to Europe to live in 1961.”
Gore Vidal Quote: “On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.”
Gore Vidal Quote: “That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers.”
Gore Vidal Quote: “I’d still like to be the President, of course, and I think the best way to do that would be to raise an army and seize the Capital. This strikes me as true democracy.”
Gore Vidal Quote: “What other culture could have produced someone like Hemmingway and not seen the joke?”
Gore Vidal Quote: “Write what you think, what you imagine, what you suspect!”
Gore Vidal Quote: “I am a born novelist, which does not happen all that often. There are people who try to write for a certain time, then they become Ministers of Culture under de Gaulle, and they begin living their own fictions.”
Gore Vidal Quote: “Populists have never had a good press in Freedom’s land.”
Gore Vidal Quote: “Where there is no desire or pursuits, there is no wholeness. But there are satisfying lesser states, fragments.”
Gore Vidal Quote: “I have never been particularly impressed by the self centered musings of my fellow writers.”
Gore Vidal Quote: “I suspect that one of the reasons we create fiction is to make sex exciting.”
Gore Vidal Quote: “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.”
Gore Vidal Quote: “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 to execute people and put them in prison if they don’t practice this glorious act.”
Gore Vidal Quote: “Wilson was very much school of Montaigne. Like Montaigne, he was not exactly misogynistic but he felt that the challenge of another male mind was the highest sort of human exchange while possession of a beautiful woman was also of intense importance to him.”
Gore Vidal Quote: “The most interesting thing about writing is the way that it obliterates time. Three hours seem like three minutes.”
Gore Vidal Quote: “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.”
Gore Vidal Quote: “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 for all.”
Gore Vidal Quote: “Why is it so important to continue after death? We never question the demonstrable fact that before birth we did not exist, so why should we fear becoming once more what we were to begin with?”
Gore Vidal Quote: “What is in question is a kind of book reviewing which seems to be more and more popular: the loose putting down of opinions as though they were facts, and the treating of facts as though they were opinions.”
Gore Vidal Quote: “I said, well, it’s a very primitive country, the United States, and it’s full of superstitions, which come out of a very fundamental religious bias, which is primitive Christianity.”
Gore Vidal Quote: “It is curious how often one prefers his enemies to his friends.”
Gore Vidal Quote: “I find in most novels no imagination at all. They seem to think the highest form of the novel is to write about marriage, because that’s the most important thing there is for middle-class people.”
Gore Vidal Quote: “By and large, serious fiction was the work of victims who portrayed victims for an audience of victims who, it was oddly assumed, would want to see their lives realistically portrayed.”
Gore Vidal Quote: “The United States is my subject, but as Hawthorne once wrote, “the United States are suited for many admirable purposes, but not to live in.””
Gore Vidal Quote: “Southerners make good novelists: they have so many stories because they have so much family.”
Gore Vidal Quote: “I think since Watergate people are interested in what the past of this country was really like.”
Gore Vidal Quote: “As the age of television progresses the Reagans will be the rule, not the exception. To be perfect for television is all a President has to be these days.”
Gore Vidal Quote: “Now-a-days lower Broadway is blocked with traffic at this hour and everyone walks; even the decrepit John Jacob Astor can be seen crawling along the street like some ancient snail, his viscous track the allure of money. Instead.”
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