Gore Vidal Quotes
Best 22 Other Quotes by Gore Vidal
“A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.”
“Andy Warhol is the only genius I've ever known with an IQ of 60.”
“As the age of television progresses the Reagans will be the rule, not the exception. To be perfect for television is all a President has to be these days.”
“I sometimes think it is because they are so bad at expressing themselves verbally that writers take to pen and paper in the first place.”
“I suspect that one of the reasons we create fiction is to make sex exciting.”
“I’m not sentimental about anything. Life flows by, and you flow with it or you don’t. Move on and move out.”
“It is not enough merely to win; others must lose.”
“Love is a fan club with only two fans.”
“Monotheism is easily the greatest disaster to befall the human race.”
“Never have children, only grandchildren.”
“Southerners make good novelists: they have so many stories because they have so much family.”
“Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.”
“The American press exists for one purpose only, and that is to convince Americans that they are living in the greatest and most envied country in the history of the world. The Press tells the American people how awful every other country is and how wonderful the United States is and how evil communism is and how happy they should be to have freedom to buy seven different sorts of detergent.”
“The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.”
“The unfed mind devours itself.”
“There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.”
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“Discretion, like the hole in a doughnut, does not exist except as an area left open by a surrounding belt of restriction. It is therefore a relative concept. It always makes sense to ask, 'Discretion under which standards?' or 'Discretion as to which authority?'”
“There is only one party in the United States, the Property Party… and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat.”
“Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either.”
“We are the United States of Amnesia, we learn nothing because we remember nothing.”
“Write something, even if it's just a suicide note.”
“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!”
“You can't really succeed with a novel anyway; they're too big. It's like city planning. You can't plan a perfect city because there's too much going on that you can't take into account. You can, however, write a perfect sentence now and then. I have.”
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“Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.”