black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.

Gore Vidal

Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.
GORE VIDAL

Confidence Personality Style Yourself
I don’t even read most reviews, unless there is a potential lawsuit on view.
GORE VIDAL

Law Myself Potential Reading Review View
Democracy is supposed to give you the feeling of choice, like Painkiller X and Painkiller Y. But they’re both just aspirin.
GORE VIDAL

Choice Democracy Feeling Perspective Politics
In writing and politicking, it’s best not to think about it, just do it.
GORE VIDAL

Best Thinking Writing
We are pleased to dismiss politics as entirely corrupt, if not financially, intellectually.
GORE VIDAL

Financial Intellectual Politics
As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.
GORE VIDAL

Election Illumination Language Liberal Society Vote
In classical times, it was a capital offense to speculate upon the hour of a king’s death or upon the identity of his successor.
GORE VIDAL

Capital Death Himself Offense Success Time
Never have children, only grandchildren.
GORE VIDAL

Children Family Funny
Anybody who is stupid enough to want to be remembered deserves to be forgotten right now.
GORE VIDAL

Deserve Enough Stupidity
Every country should have at least one King Farouk.
GORE VIDAL

Country Oneself
A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.
GORE VIDAL

Better Narcissism Yourself
The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity – much less dissent.
GORE VIDAL

Elimination Management Media Object Opinion World
Policemen are seldom tried for their crimes, or indeed, held responsible for what they do, which disturbs the peace and causes distress among the orderly.
GORE VIDAL

Crime Disturb Order Peace Police Responsibility
History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true.
GORE VIDAL

Gossip History Hope Past True
The behaviour of President Bush on 11 September certainly gives rise to not unnatural suspicions.
GORE VIDAL

Natural President Rise Suspicion
Actually, I can’t remember when I was not writing.
GORE VIDAL

Myself Remember Writing

All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Gore Vidal Quotes