• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 

1. black
2. grey
3. blue
4. red
5. brown
6. white

There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.

Gore Vidal

Related Topics

PoemPolice

Popular Authors

Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

Prevoius| Next

More Gore Vidal Quotes

• 

  On September 5, 1774, forty-five of the weightiest colonial men formed the First Continental Congress at Philadelphia.

  GORE VIDAL
  CongressFormManWeight
• 

  My father had lifelong contempt for politicians.

  GORE VIDAL
  FatherLifeMyselfPolitics
• 

  To a man, ornithologists are tall, slender, and bearded so that they can stand motionless for hours, imitating kindly trees, as they watch for birds.

  GORE VIDAL
  BirdManStandTime
• 

  I never said I was gay, because I don’t think anyone is.

  GORE VIDAL
  MyselfSexualityThinking
• 

  Remember, I’m West Point, where I was born. My father went there.

  GORE VIDAL
  BornFatherMyselfRemember
• 

  To invent a war means that you’ve become a wartime president, and you can suspend much if not all of the Bill of Rights.

  GORE VIDAL
  InventionPresidentSuspendWar
• 

  I don’t even read most reviews, unless there is a potential lawsuit on view.

  GORE VIDAL
  LawMyselfPotentialReadingReviewView
• 

  Some of my father’s fellow West Pointers once asked him why I turned out so well, his secret in raising me. And he said, ‘I never gave him any advice, and he never asked for any.’ We agreed on nothing, but we never quarreled once.

  GORE VIDAL
  AgreementFatherFellowHimselfRaiseSecret
• 

  Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.

  GORE VIDAL
  BusinessCountryFaithFictionLostWriting
• 

  We’re not a democracy.

  GORE VIDAL
  DemocracyOne Liner
• 

  The first grown-up book that I read on my own was a nineteenth-century edition of ‘Tales from Livy’ that I’d found in my grandfather’s library.

  GORE VIDAL
  BookEditionGrownLibraryReading
• 

  Anybody who is stupid enough to want to be remembered deserves to be forgotten right now.

  GORE VIDAL
  DeserveEnoughStupidity
• 

  There’s a lot to be said for being nouveau riche, and the Reagans mean to say it all.

  GORE VIDAL
  IdentityMyself
• 

  To preserve the human race, it is now necessary to reorganize society. To this end, an Authority must be created with the power to control human population, to redistribute food, to purify air, water, soil, to re-pattern the cities.

  GORE VIDAL
  FoodHumanPatternPopulationPreserveRaceRecognition
• 

  TV news is not very instructive.

  GORE VIDAL
  InstructionOne Liner
• 

  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
  AdultAdvertiseCaptiveRiseWorld