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Gore Vidal Quotes - Page 17

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I'm a born - again atheist.

I'm a born - again atheist.

Atheist, Religion, Atheism

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Teaching has ruined more American novelists than drink.

Education, Teaching, Drinking

Little Bush says we are at war, but we are not at war because to be at war Congress has to vote for it. He says we are at war on terror, but that is a metaphor, though I doubt if he knows what that means. It's like having a war on dandruff, it's endless and pointless.

War, Mean, Doubt

A talent for drama is not a talent for writing, but is ability to articulate human relationships.

Drama, Writing, Genius

1956 In the New York Times,17 Jun.

World events are the work of individuals whose motives are often frivolous, even casual.

Events, World, Individual

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

Capote I truly loathed. The way you might loathe an animal. A filthy animal that has found its way into the house.

Animal, House, Might

"How guest Hans Christian Andersen destroyed his friendship with Dickens" by Vanessa Thorpe, www.theguardian.com. September 9, 2017.

It is ironic that a nation that has never experienced a coup d'etat should be so obsessed with the idea of conspiracy.

Ideas, Ironic, Conspiracy

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

Despite the warnings of other times, the impetuous and the confident continue their indiscriminate cultivation of weeds at the expense of occasional flowers.

Weed, Flower, Criticism

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

Gentlemen are not supposed to tell the truth about their sex lives, nor are ladies, for that matter. Of course Clinton lied - as would anybody in his position.

Sex, Gentleman, Matter

Sex is a continuum. You go through different phases along life's way... and if you don't, you've been sort of cheated.

Sex, Different, Phases

"On “Capote,” “Brokeback Mountain” and Why “Match Point” is the Best Picture of the Year" by Gore Vidal, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 4, 2006.

The whole point to American journalism is what ought to be true is true.

Journalism, Being True, Ought

Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

God, or what have you, will not be found at the far end of a syllogism, no matter how brilliantly phrased or conceived.

Matter, Ends, Found

Gore Vidal (2016). “Messiah”, p.73, Pickle Partners Publishing

I don't deny or affirm anything. I'm not very personal.

Deny

Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

anyone who sings about love and harmony and life [john lennon] is dangerous to someone who sings about death and killing and subduing [Nixon]

Killing, Harmony, Lennon

Poor John Simon - what a nightmare, to wake up in the morning and realize that you are John Simon.

Morning, Wake Up, Nightmare

Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

[Norman Mailer] is against masturbation, he's against homosexuality. He believes that murder is essentially sexual. I think he's rather an anthology of all the darkest American traits.

Believe, Thinking, Murder

Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

I'm in favor of sexual encounters.

Encounters, Favors

Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Nothing is durable, I think anybody who thinks sex is durable is going to have a lot of grief.

Sex, Grief, Thinking

Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

The best novelist of my generation is an Italian living in Paris, still working and improving - Italo Calvino.

Italian, Paris, Novelists

Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Since I ought to be arrogant, impressed with my social position, overwhelmed by my beauty, therefore I am. Actually I was never my own type so I completely missed my beauty all through my youth. I have no social position and I stay away from what is known as society as much as possible. But people like to re-invent you, according to cliché.

People, Arrogant, Overwhelmed

Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

For true happiness, it is not enough to be successful oneself . . . one's friends must fail.

Successful, True Happiness, Failing

A superficial education would be worse than none. But a full education would open every man's eyes to the nature of human existence.

Eye, Men, Would Be

GORE VIDAL (1964). “JULIAN”

I suppose my liking for Italy is partly atavism, my family are of the old Roman stock. They came from the Alps north of Venice.

Venice, Alps, My Family

Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

I suppose that one is always tempted to challenge those who think that they and they alone possess the truth or the way or the key to the mystery.

Thinking, Keys, Challenges

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

In a society like ours, politics is improvisation. To the artful dodger rather than the true believer goes the prize.

Politician, Believer, Improvisation

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

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