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Writers since at least the heyday of Gore Vidal have bemoaned their audience's defection to other forms of entertainment.
— Garth Risk Hallberg
The American passion for categorizing has now managed to create two non-existent categories - gay and straight.
— Gore Vidal
That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers.
— Gore Vidal
All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.
— Gore Vidal
There are a great many people who have a vested interest in maintaining the stupidity of the American public.
— Gore Vidal
Love is a fan club with only two fans.
— Gore Vidal
Christianity is such a silly religion.
— Gore Vidal
History is idle gossip about a happening whose truth is lost the instant it has taken place.
— Gore Vidal
Does one ever read a politician's books?
— 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
Those who have not undergone minor disasters are usually being held in reserve for something major
— Gore Vidal
My father had lifelong contempt for politicians.
— Gore Vidal
Southerners make good novelists: they have so many stories because they have so much family.
— Gore Vidal
Television is a great leveler. You always end up sounding like the people who ask the questions.
— Gore Vidal
We are pleased to dismiss politics as entirely corrupt, if not financially, intellectually.
— Gore Vidal
When Franklin says yes, yes, yes, he isn't agreeing with you. He's just listening to you.
— Gore Vidal
The American vice is explanation.
— Gore Vidal
The war against terror is like a war against dandruff. It's a metaphor. It's not about anything.
— Gore Vidal
How hungrily we read about ourselves!
— Gore Vidal
Why not just eliminate the federal income tax?
— Gore Vidal
I've always regarded it as a test of character to dislike the Kennedys. I don't really respect anyone who falls for Camelot.
— Christopher Hitchens
The behaviour of President Bush on 11 September certainly gives rise to not unnatural suspicions.
— Gore Vidal
As I looked back over my life, I realized that I enjoyed nothingnot art, not sex
more than going to the movies. — Gore Vidal
True wisdom is to know the extent of what you don't know quite as well as you know what you do know.
— Gore Vidal
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The problem with most Americans is that they don't like any question that takes more than ten seconds to answer.
— Gore Vidal
In a society like ours, politics is improvisation. To the artful dodger rather than the true believer goes the prize.
— Gore Vidal
Washington turned a blind eye to Al-Qaeda.
— Gore Vidal
Never have varmints, only grandvarmints.
— Gore Vidal
For true happiness, it is not enough to be successful oneself ... one's friends must fail.
— Gore Vidal
Always a godfather, never a god.
— Gore Vidal
There is a terrible garrulousness in most American writing, legacy of the old Frontier.
— 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
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
I'm a fervent foe of water pollution, whether it is our own Hudson River or Philadelphia's tap water.
— Gore Vidal
Ronald Reagan is a triumph of the embalmer's art.
— Gore Vidal
Although Americans justify their self-interest in moral terms, their true interest is never itself moral.
— Gore Vidal
It never occurred to any Enlightenment figure in the eighteenth century that law was not preferable to man.
— Gore Vidal
It is not enough merely to win; others must lose.
— Gore Vidal
Since nothing is free, to each his price.
— Gore Vidal
My family is Southern. I'm used to Bill Clintons.
— Gore Vidal
To be categorized is, simply, to be enslaved
— Gore Vidal
In the German concentration camps, Jews wore yellow stars while homosexuals wore pink lambdas.
— Gore Vidal
People have forgotten the effects of prohibition. We have become the United Statesof Amnesia.
— Gore Vidal
How marvelous books are, crossing worlds and centuries, defeating ignorance and, finally, cruel time itself.
— Gore Vidal
Like the TV networks, once our government has a hit, it will be repeated over and over again.
— Gore Vidal
Both Marx and Christ agree that in this life, a right action is consideration for the welfare of others.
— 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
