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