Gore Vidal Quotes

Write something, even if it's just a suicide note.
Gore Vidal

In writing and politicking, it's best not to think about it, just do it.
Gore Vidal

There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.
Gore Vidal

Human, Problem, Simply

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.
Gore Vidal

Today, Write, Read

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.
Gore Vidal

Age, Perfect, Days

Now you have people in Washington who have no interest in the country at all. They're interested in their companies, their corporations grabbing Caspian oil.
Gore Vidal

Country, Interested, Interest

In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you're a great writer, you must say that you are.
Gore Vidal

Great, America, Goes

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

Become, American, Nation

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

Work, Nothing, Worth

Sex is. There is nothing more to be done about it. Sex builds no roads, writes no novels and sex certainly gives no meaning to anything in life but itself.
Gore Vidal

Life, Sex, Nothing

The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.
Gore Vidal

Money, American, Less

I'm all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.
Gore Vidal

Between, Bringing, Consenting

We're not a democracy.
Gore Vidal

What other culture could have produced someone like Hemmingway and not seen the joke?
Gore Vidal

Someone, Joke, Culture

Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.
Gore Vidal

Age, Sex, Place

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

Time, Made, Cannot

One is sorry one could not have taken both branches of the road. But we were not allotted multiple selves.
Gore Vidal

Sorry, Road, Both

Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.
Gore Vidal

Others, Drink, Writers

Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they're scraping the top of the barrel.
Gore Vidal

Top, Television, Hungry

That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers.
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That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president.
Gore Vidal

American, President, Chase

The behaviour of President Bush on 11 September certainly gives rise to not unnatural suspicions.
Gore Vidal

President, Rise, Behaviour

The greatest pleasure when I started making money was not buying cars or yachts but finding myself able to have as many freshly typed drafts as possible.
Gore Vidal

Car, Money, Greatest

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

Bureaucrat, Poem

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

Mean, Said, Nouveau

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Biography

Nationality: American

Born: October 3, 1925

Died: July 31, 2012

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