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Gore Vidal Quotes - Page 8

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There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.

There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.

Doe, Rebellious, Bureaucracy

1968 Sex, Death and Money, preface. See Frost 338:84.

We affect one another quite enough merely by existing. Whenever the stars cross, or is it comets? fragments pass briefly from one orbit to another. On rare occasions there is total collision, but most often the two simply continue without incident, neither losing more than a particle to the other, in passing.

Stars, Two, Orbit

FaceBook post by Gore Vidal from Jul 09, 2016

The word heterosexual is an adjective, the word homosexual is an adjective. They describe an activity. Of course there's a homosexual activity; of course there's a heterosexual activity. But there's no homosexual person. There's no heterosexual person. Everybody is everything.

Adjectives, Homosexual, Persons

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

The family in the West is finished... its origin was economic, not biological... the odd group of strangers that make up every family no longer have any reason to live together, to suffer from one another's jagged edges.

Family, Suffering, Together

All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world.

World, Century

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

When Ronald Reagan's career in show business came to an end, he was hired to impersonate, first, a California governor and then an American president who would reduce taxes for his employers, the Southern and Western New Rich, much of whose money came from the defence industries. There is nothing unusual about this arrangement. All recent presidents have had their price-tags.

Price Tag, Careers, California

Gore Vidal (2004). “Imperial America: Reflections on the United States of Amnesia”, p.61, CLAIRVIEW BOOKS

You cannot get through the density of the propaganda with which the American people, through the dreaded media, have been filled and the horrible public educational system we have for the average person. It's just grotesque.

Educational, Media, Average

"Gore Vidal's America: Gore Vidal on liberty". The Real News Interview, therealnews.com. July 11, 2007.

I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.

Witty, Sex, Powerful

"Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia: Tribeca Review" by Frank Scheck, www.hollywoodreporter.com. April 19, 2013.

At a certain age, you have to live near good medical care — if, that is, you're going to continue. You always have the option of not continuing, which, I fear, is sometimes nobler.

Age, Care, Medical

"Gore Vidal: What I've Learned" by Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. August 1, 2012.

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.

Thinking, Race, America

Gore Vidal, Richard Peabody, Lucinda Ebersole (2005). “Conversations with Gore Vidal”, p.52, Univ. Press of Mississippi

Love is a fan club with only two fans.

Love Is, Two, Fans

I suspect that one of the reasons we create fiction is to make sex exciting.

Sex, Writing, Fiction

FaceBook post by Gore Vidal from Sep 17, 2011

Everybody likes a bit of gossip to some point, as long as it's gossip with some point to it. That's why I like history. History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true.

Past, Long, Gossip

FaceBook post by Gore Vidal from Jan 05, 2015

CO₂ emissions anywhere threaten civilisation everywhere.

Environmental, Civilisation, Emissions

The greatest pleasure when I started making money was not buying cars or yachts but finding myself able to have as many freshly typed drafts as possible.

Finding The One, Car, Literature

Every time a friend succeeds, I die a little.

Love, Dream, Littles

"Gore Vidal quotes: 26 of the best", www.theguardian.com. August 1, 2012.

The important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.

Gay, Lgbt Pride, Important

Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.

Country, Business, Writing

I sometimes think it is because they are so bad at expressing themselves verbally that writers take to pen and paper in the first place

Writing, Thinking, Paper

Most writers write books that they wouldn't read. I ought to know; I've done it myself.

Book, Writing, Done

I believe it's my pastoral duty to convert friends to atheism.

Believe, Atheism, I Believe

Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

I have no television to go on so I get a lot of writing done. That's my substitute for television.

Writing, Done, Goes On

Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Yet in a society of conflicting interests the only democratic way in which matters can be improved is through politics, and politics means the compromising of extremes in order to achieve that notorious half loaf which the passionate and the outraged never find sufficient.

Mean, Order, Matter

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

I regard monotheism as the greatest disaster ever to befall the human race. I see no good in Judaism, Christianity, or Islam - good people, yes, but any religion based on a single...

Race, People, Islam

"At Home: Essays 1982-1988". Book by Gore Vidal (Appendix), 1988.

Anybody, at any time, may equally find himself victim or executioner.

May, Victim, Executioners

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

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