Top 200 Quotes by Gore Vidal

About Gore Vidal

These are some quotes by American author Gore Vidal Novelist, who lived between October 3, 1925 and July 31, 2012.

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

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

Gore Vidal

Every country should have at least one King Farouk.

Every country should have at least one King Farouk.

Gore Vidal

Every generation gets the Tiny Tim it deserves.

Every generation gets the Tiny Tim it deserves.

Gore Vidal

Americans have no idea of the extent of their government's mischief... the number of military strikes we have made unprovoked, against other countries, since 1947 is more than 250.

Americans have no idea of the extent of their government's mischief... the number of military strikes we have made unprovoked, against other countries, since 1947 is more than 250.

Gore Vidal

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

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

Gore Vidal

An important governorship used to be the best springboard for would-be presidents.

An important governorship used to be the best springboard for would-be presidents.

Gore Vidal

In the writing of novels, there is the problem of how to shape a narrative.

In the writing of novels, there is the problem of how to shape a narrative.

Gore Vidal

Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made.

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

Because there is no cosmic point to the life that each of us perceives on this distant bit of dust at the galaxy's edge... there is all the more reason for us to maintain in proper balance what we have here. Because there is nothing else. No thing. This is it. And quite enough, all in all.

Gore Vidal

At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation and prejudice.

At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation and prejudice.

Gore Vidal

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