Authors:

A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z

Gore Vidal Quotes - Page 12

All Quotes Advertising Age Alcohol Altruism Army Art Atheism Atheist Belief Business Character Children Choices Conspiracy Constitution Country Critics Culture Cynicism Democracy Dying Earth Energy Envy Evidence Evil Failing Genius Giving Gossip Greed Hate Home House Inspirational Islam Language Latin Liberty Literature Love Lying Memories Metaphor Pain Past Pleasure Politics Prejudice Prohibition Purpose Reading Reality Religion Running Sarcasm Stupidity Talent Truman War Winning Worship Writing Youth

It is vice to go to bed with someone you are not married to or have someone of your own sex or to get money for having sex with someone who does not appeal to you-incidentally, the basis of half the marriages of my

It is vice to go to bed with someone you are not married to or have someone of your own sex or to get money for having sex with someone who does not appeal to you-incidentally, the basis of half the marriages of my generation.

Sex, Bed, Vices

France is a nation devoted to the false hypothesis on which it then builds marvelously logical structures.

France, Logical, Structure

The worst thing to happen to Lincoln - aside from the unfortunate incident at Ford's theatre - was to fall into the hands of Carl Sandburg.

Fall, Hands, Theatre

People are worse educated than they used to be. Certainly they are not very interested in reading books, as opposed to watching television, movies. They are used to getting things through the eye and the ear. In a small way, literature goes on being written, but few people like it. Once it's bureaucratized by the schoolteachers, the game's up.

Book, Reading, Eye

Source: www.esquire.com

Until the rise of American advertising, it never occurred to anyone anywhere in the world that the teenager was a captive in a hostile world of adults.

Business, Teenager, Adults

I came out of Capitol Hill. Well, that's just not an ordinary background for a writer of the ordinary American sort.

Ordinary, Hills, Capitol Hill

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

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 if at a neighborhood level violence is necessary, I'm all for violence. It's the only thing Americans understand.

Believe, Fighting, Gay

The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.

Theatre, Needs, Theater

Gore Vidal (1968). “Sex, Death, and Money”

Somebody has to keep score and I decided I was going to do it. I'm a born score-keeper and I realize, like an umpire, that my decisions may cause distress.

Umpires, Decision, Causes

Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

It is not enough merely to win; others must lose.

Winning, Enough, Loses

I was the first - I was extremely unpopular with the establishment of the United States, particularly the New York Times was always an enemy, and Time magazine, off and on, the enemy, because I said things and took positions that other people didn't do.

New York, People, Enemy

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

I was never my own type so I completely missed my beauty all through my youth.

Youth, Type, My Own

Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

...I'm no longer the scales most lovers are, weighing the deeds and gifts and treasures proffered against those received or stolen from the other, trying always to bring into fatal balance two separate things.

Two, Balance, Trying

Heaven's sakes, there's only one party which I call the Property Party. It's got two wings. One is called the "Republican" and one is called "Democratic." It is the same party so it makes no difference whether a Democrat's elected or a Republican's elected. The ownership remains the same.

Party, Differences, Wings

Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Altruism is a brief phase through which some adolescents must pass. It is rather like acne. Happily, as with acne, only a few are permanently scarred.

Acne, Phases, Altruism

Gore Vidal (2007). “Point to Point Navigation”, p.27, Vintage

No one reads novels anymore. And I don't see the situation improving. People prefer video games, reality TV, and films. There are so many reasons now not to read novels.

Reality, Games, People

"The End of Gore Vidal". Interview with Lila Azam Zanganeh, www.guernicamag.com. August 15, 2012.

If Henry Miller often sounded like a village idiot, it is because, like Whitman, he was the rest of the village as well.

Village Idiots, Wells, Ifs

That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers.

Book, World, May

Gore Vidal (1969). “Reflections Upon a Sinking Ship. (1. Ed.)”, Boston : Little, Brown

The critics are like tourists who return from a trip saying they've "done" Machu Picchu: "Okay, we've done magical realism," so now we can throw it out.

Tourists, Done, Return

"The End of Gore Vidal". Interview with Lila Azam Zanganeh, www.guernicamag.com. August 15, 2012.

Populists have never had a good press in Freedom's land.

Land, Populist, Presses

Gore Vidal (2007). “Point to Point Navigation”, p.21, Vintage

I'd like to see a revival of state legislatures, in which I am a true Jeffersonian.

Revival, Legislature, States

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

If satire is to be effective, the audience must be aware of the thing satirized.

Satire, Audience, Ifs

Gore Vidal (1957). “Visit to a Small Planet: A Comedy Akin to a Vaudeville”, Boston ; Toronto : Little Brown

Having no talent is no longer enough.

Talent, Enough

To a born-again atheist like myself, it is clear that each of us has multiple selves, talents, perceptions. But to the Roman Catholic, unity is all.

Atheist, Self, Catholic

Gore Vidal (1987). “Armageddon?: essays 1983-1987”, Andre Deutsch Ltd

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.

People, Age, Band

Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

You May Also Like: