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Women are put on earth only to provide men with sons. — Gore Vidal

An important governorship used to be the best springboard for would-be presidents. — Gore Vidal

No reform ever came from the bottom, and it was always people who understood how the ruling class worked who turned out to be the reformers. — Gore Vidal

A racial or religious or tribal identity is a kind of fact. — Gore Vidal

All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself. — Gore Vidal

I might become an ascetic, live in India. A little rice is about the best I can do now. — Gore Vidal

Love is a fan club with only two fans. — Gore Vidal

As for civil liberties, any one who is not vigilant may one day find himself living, if not in a police state, at least in a police city. — Gore Vidal

It's always best to stay out of other people's divorces. And their civil wars. — Gore Vidal

Do nothing that is not natural - and ritual is natural - and all will be for the best. — Gore Vidal

Does one ever read a politician's books? — Gore Vidal

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

He who is last had best laugh. — Gore Vidal

Nonprofit status is what created the Bible Belt. The tax code brought religion back to this country. — Gore Vidal

You can improve your talent, but your talent is a given, a mysterious constant. You must make it the best of its kind. — Gore Vidal

Nearly everyone who goes into a campaign is not only eager for the place he hopes to fill but for what might come after. — Gore Vidal

It is always a delicate matter, when a friend or acquaintance becomes president. — Gore Vidal

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. — Gore Vidal

Southerners make good novelists: they have so many stories because they have so much family. — Gore Vidal

I have been on the cover of Time magazine. My father was on the cover of Time, and my grandfather was on the cover of Time. — Gore Vidal

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

The rhetoric of hate is often most effective when couched in the idiom of love. — Gore Vidal

Half the American population no longer reads newspapers: plainly, they are the clever half. — Gore Vidal

In character, as it were, the writer settles for an impression of what happened rather than creating the sense of the thing happening. — Gore Vidal

Let the dust take me when the adventure's done and I shall make the dust glitter for all eternity with my marvelous fury. — Gore Vidal

In writing and politicking, it's best not to think about it, just do it. — Gore Vidal

Ideally, of course, a relationship is best, but then how many people are capable of deep feeling? Practically none. — Gore Vidal

I was raised in the Washington household of my grandfather Senator Thomas P. Gore of Oklahoma, and have known politicians intimately all my life. — Gore Vidal

The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes. — Gore Vidal

Always a godfather, never a god. — Gore Vidal

We do not want to old to be sharper than we. It is bad enough that they were there first, and got the best things. — Gore Vidal

Persuading the people to vote against their own best interests has been the awesome genius of the
American political elite from the beginning. — Gore Vidal

Never have varmints, only grandvarmints. — Gore Vidal

To be categorized is, simply, to be enslaved — Gore Vidal

My family is Southern. I'm used to Bill Clintons. — Gore Vidal

Like the rest of us, Constantius was many men in the body of one. — Gore Vidal

Since nothing is free, to each his price. — Gore Vidal

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

It never occurred to any Enlightenment figure in the eighteenth century that law was not preferable to man. — Gore Vidal

The people are not stupid, but they are totally misinformed. — Gore Vidal

Although Americans justify their self-interest in moral terms, their true interest is never itself moral. — Gore Vidal

Ronald Reagan is a triumph of the embalmer's art. — Gore Vidal

I'm a fervent foe of water pollution, whether it is our own Hudson River or Philadelphia's tap water. — Gore Vidal

During the late '50s, I had worked on the script of Ben-Hur in an office next to that of the producer Sam Zimbalist. — Gore Vidal

Gore Vidal has been a friend of mine for years, and he's one of the greatest writers in American history. — Cybill Shepherd

There is a terrible garrulousness in most American writing, legacy of the old Frontier. — Gore Vidal

Democracy is supposed to give you the feeling of choice, like Painkiller X and Painkiller Y. But they're both just aspirin. — Gore Vidal

It is curious how often one prefers his enemies to his friends. — Gore Vidal

That my plans have lately gone somewhat awry is the sort of risk one must take if life is to be superb. — Gore Vidal

American writers want to be not good but great; and so are neither. — Gore Vidal

To speak today of a famous novelist is like speaking of a famous cabinetmaker or speedboat designer. Adjective is inappropriate to noun. — Gore Vidal

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