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Gore Vidal Quotes - Page 11

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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

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.

People, Adjectives, Normal

"Sex Is Politics". Essay by Gore Vidal (1979), published in his book "The Second American Revolution and Other Essays", 1982.

One of the most fascinating aspects of politician-watching is trying to determine to what extent any politician believes what he says.

Believe, Trying, Politician

Gore Vidal (1999). “The Essential Gore Vidal”, Random House Incorporated

Ideally, the writer needs no audience other than the few who understand that it is immodest and greedy to want more.

Inspirational, Needs, Want

Gore Vidal (1978). “Matters of fact and of fiction: essays, 1973-1976”, Vintage

Astronauts: rotarians in outer space.

Space, Astronomy, Astronaut

There are certain truths so true that they are practically unbelievable.

Truth, Certain, Unbelievable

Gore Vidal (1982). “Pink triangle and yellow star, and other essays (1976-1982)”

If you want to rise in politics in the United States, there is one subject you must stay away from, and that is politics.

United States, Want, Subjects

Before the cards that one is dealt by life are the cards that fate has dealt: one's family.

Fate, Cards

Gore Vidal (1995). “Palimpsest: a memoir”

What is there to say, finally, except that pain is bad and pleasure good, life all, death nothing.

Pain, Good Life, Pleasure

American laws don't work, but at least the laws of physics might work.

Law, Might, Physics

"Gore Vidal on the Media and the American People". Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. August 1, 2012.

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.

Distance, Writing, Europe

Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

I write in different styles because I hear different voices in my head. It would be boring to have always the same voice, point of view.

Writing, Views, Voice

Television is a great leveler. You always end up sounding like the people who ask the questions.

People, Television, Ends

Gore Vidal, Donald Weise (1999). “Gore Vidal: Sexually Speaking, Collected Sex Writings”

I don't want anything. I don't want a job. I don't want to be respectable. I don't want prizes. I turned down the National Institute of Arts and Letters when I was elected to it in 1976 on the grounds that I already belonged to the Diners Club.

Art, Jobs, Diners

The American vice is explanation.

Vices, Explanation

Gore Vidal (1982). “Pink triangle and yellow star, and other essays (1976-1982)”

Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made.

Hygiene, Literature, World

Gore Vidal (1969). “Reflections upon a sinking ship”

Baum (Writer of THE WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ) was a true educator, and those who read his Oz books are often made what they were not-imaginative , tolerant, alert to wonders, life.

Book, Wizards, Wonder

The constitution has broken down. We have no enemies except the ones we select and direct towards the nearest nuclear bombs. They need an enemy to provoke, a diversion. This is the mentality of tenth-rate people who are in politics because corporate America likes them. They are malleable. They give them contracts to build missile shields that will never work. It's deeply corrupt.

Government, America, Broken

I keep as far from children as possible. I don't like the size of them; the scale is all wrong. The head tends to be too big for the bodies and the hands and feet are a disaster and they keep falling into things, and the nakedness of their bad character.

Children, Fall, Character

Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

One's neighbor is always the enemy. That is the nature of things.

Enemy, Neighbor

Gore Vidal (2002). “Creation: a novel”, Doubleday Books

When the white race broke out of Europe 500 years ago, it did many astounding things all over the globe. Inspired by a raging sky-god, the whites were able to pretend that their conquests were in order to bring the One God to everyone, particularly those with older and subtler religions.

Race, Order, Years

Gore Vidal (1992). “The Decline and Fall of the American Empire”

A babble of words that no one understands now fills the airwaves, and language loses all meaning as we sink slowly, mindlessly, into herstory rather than history because most rapists are men, aren't they?

Men, Political, Language

Gore Vidal (1991). “A view from the diners club: essays 1987-1991”

I'm in Hollywood right now, surrounded by nothing but the sons and grandsons of movie stars.

Stars, Son, Hollywood

"Fresh Air Remembers Writer And Critic Gore Vidal". www.npr.org. August 2, 2012.

Don't ever make the mistake with people like me thinking we are looking for heroes. There aren't any and if there were, they would be killed immediately. I'm never surprised by bad behaviour. I expect it.

Mistake, Hero, Thinking

FaceBook post by Gore Vidal from Nov 26, 2014

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, this has been a squinting, walleyed time to be born in.

Strong, Eye, Squinting

GORE VIDAL (1964). “JULIAN”

I have been saying for the some time now that America has only one party - the property party. It's the party of big corporation, the party of money. It has two right wings; one is Democrat and the other is Republican.

Party, Wings, Two

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