We are pleased to dismiss politics as entirely corrupt, if not financially, intellectually.
GORE VIDALActually, I can’t remember when I was not writing.
More Gore Vidal Quotes
-
-
Each youth betrays considerable anxiety about the wedding night ahead.
GORE VIDAL -
As for my support for Obama, remember that I was brought up in Washington. It was an all-black city when I was a kid. And I’ve always been very pro-African-American – or whatever phrase we now use.
GORE VIDAL -
Until very recently, the artist was a magician who did his magic in public view but kept himself and his effects a matter of mystery.
GORE VIDAL -
As a schoolboy, I read most of Carl Sandburg’s six-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln.
GORE VIDAL -
Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.
GORE VIDAL -
Sex is. There is nothing more to be done about it. Sex builds no roads, writes no novels and sex certainly gives no meaning to anything in life but itself.
GORE VIDAL -
I’m a fervent foe of water pollution, whether it is our own Hudson River or Philadelphia’s tap water.
GORE VIDAL -
I’m not a conspiracy theorist – I’m a conspiracy analyst.
GORE VIDAL -
A racial or religious or tribal identity is a kind of fact.
GORE VIDAL -
I am not, at heart, a playwright.
GORE VIDAL -
Everything’s wrong on Wikipedia.
GORE VIDAL -
There is only one party in the United States: the Property party… and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat.
GORE VIDAL -
Jews, blacks and homosexuals are despised by the Christian and Communist majorities of East and West. Also, as a result of the invention of Israel, Jews can now count on the hatred of the Islamic world.
GORE VIDAL -
Corporations must pay tax.
GORE VIDAL -
Why not just eliminate the federal income tax?
GORE VIDAL






