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Gore Vidal Quotes


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.

There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.

There is no such thing as a homosexual or a heterosexual person. There are only homo- or heterosexual acts. Most people are a mixture of impulses if not practices.

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

There's a lot to be said for being nouveau riche, and the Reagans mean to say it all.

Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both die.

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.

Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either.

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.

We must declare ourselves, become known; allow the world to discover this subterranean life of ours which connects kings and farm boys, artists and clerks. Let them see that the important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.

We're not a democracy.

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.

What other culture could have produced someone like Hemmingway and not seen the joke?

Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.

Write something, even if it's just a suicide note.

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