Gore Vidal Quotes & Quotations

Gore Vidal Quotes

» On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.

» Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.

» 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.

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

» If most men and women were forced to rely upon physical charm to attract lovers, their sexual lives would be not only meager but in a youth-worshiping country like America painfully brief.

» Never have children, only grand children.

» Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.

» Democracy is supposed to give you the feeling of choice, like Painkiller X and Painkiller Y. But they're both just aspirin.

» Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.

» It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true.

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