He who is last had best laugh.
GORE VIDALEnvy is the central fact of American life.
More Gore Vidal Quotes
-
-
The only thing that I react really violently to is being misquoted.
GORE VIDAL -
TV news is not very instructive.
GORE VIDAL -
Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made.
GORE VIDAL -
Boys don’t like girls around when they do boy things.
GORE VIDAL -
It’s always best to stay out of other people’s divorces. And their civil wars.
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 -
Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.
GORE VIDAL -
There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.
GORE VIDAL -
Until the rise of American advertising, it never occurred to anyone anywhere in the world that the teenager was a captive in a hostile world of adults.
GORE VIDAL -
In essence, Clinton’s Anti-Terrorism Act would set up a national police force, over the long-dead bodies of the founders.
GORE VIDAL -
On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.
GORE VIDAL -
I am a novelist turned temporary adventurer, and I chose to write television, movies and plays for much the same reason that Henry Morgan selected the Spanish Main for his peculiar – and not dissimilar – sphere of operations.
GORE VIDAL -
A racial or religious or tribal identity is a kind of fact.
GORE VIDAL -
The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.
GORE VIDAL -
I’m not paranoid, no. I’m different in that I have enemies. Very real ones.
GORE VIDAL