Category - Gore Vidal

Discover the thoughtful and inspirational Quotes of Gore Vidal, a philosopher and author. Our collection of his most impactful quotes reflects his deep understanding of language, philosophy, and history.
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Gore Vidal

Walter Lippmann suggests that the United States behaves like a society which thinks it is complete with no more to accomplish; that, for better or worse, we are what we are, and the only danger to our comfort is external.

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Gore Vidal

For every Scott Fitzgerald concerned with the precise word and the selection of relevant incident, there are a hundred American writers, many well-regarded, who appear to believe that one word is just as good as another and that everything which occurs to them is worth putting down.

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Gore Vidal

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

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Gore Vidal

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

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Gore Vidal

Having no contemporaries left means you cannot say, ‘Well, so-and-so will like this,’ which you do when you’re younger. You realize there is no so-and-so anymore. You are your own so-and-so. There is a bleak side to it.

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Gore Vidal

I’m all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.

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Gore Vidal

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

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Gore Vidal

Didn’t George Washington say, ‘He who controls Afghanistan will carry New Jersey?’

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Gore Vidal

Jack Kennedy very much enjoyed Fletcher Knebel’s thriller ‘Seven Days in May,’ later a film. The story: a jingo based on the real-life Admiral Arthur Radford plans a military coup to take over the White House.

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Gore Vidal

The unfed mind devours itself.

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Gore Vidal

Until very recently, the artist was a magician who did his magic in public view but kept himself and his effects a matter of mystery.

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Gore Vidal

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

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