Gore Vidal quotes - page 5

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. (Gore Vidal)
Never offend an enemy in a small way. View quote
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All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself. View quote
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On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died. View quote
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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. View quote
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One is sorry one could not have taken both branches of the road. But we were not allotted multiple selves. View quote
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I'm not sentimental about anything. Life flows by, and you flow with it or you don't. Move on and move out. View quote
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Nothing human is finally calculable; even to ourselves we are strange. View quote
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The behaviour of President Bush on 11 September certainly gives rise to not unnatural suspicions. View quote
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Write what you know will always be excellent advice for those who ought not to write at all. Write what you think, what you imagine, what you suspect! View quote
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Always a godfather, never a god. (Gore Vidal)
Most lives are spent putting on and taking off masks. View quote
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Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age. View quote
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All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world. View quote
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Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith. View quote
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The important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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I have always regarded as a stroke of good fortune that I was not born or brought up in a small American town; they may be the backbone of the nation, but they are also the backbone of ignorance, bigotry, and boredom, all in vast quantities. View quote
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Each writer is born with a repertory company in his head. View quote
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Southerners make good novelists: they have so many stories because they have so much family. (Gore Vidal)
History is idle gossip about a happening whose truth is lost the instant it has taken place. View quote
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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. View quote
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In writing and politicking, it's best not to think about it, just do it. View quote
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Love is a fan club with only two fans. View quote
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