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.

The first grown-up book that I read on my own was a nineteenth-century edition of 'Tales from Livy' that I'd found in my grandfather's library.

The first grown-up book that I read on my own was a nineteenth-century edition of 'Tales from Livy' that I'd found in my grandfather's library.

Gore Vidal

I remember the Bond movies when I was a child. They were silent then.

I remember the Bond movies when I was a child. They were silent then.

Gore Vidal

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.

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.

Gore Vidal

Like most readers, I tend to skip the acknowledgements at the beginnings of books: the 'To-My-Wife-Without-Whose-Invaluable-Assistance' kind of thing.

Like most readers, I tend to skip the acknowledgements at the beginnings of books: the 'To-My-Wife-Without-Whose-Invaluable-Assistance' kind of thing.

Gore Vidal

Boys don't like girls around when they do boy things.

Boys don't like girls around when they do boy things.

Gore Vidal

I didn't mean to spend my life writing American history, which should have been taught in the schools, but I saw no alternative but to taking it on myself. I could think of a lot of cheerier things I'd rather be doing than analyzing George Washington and Aaron Burr. But it came to pass, that was my job, so I did it.

Gore Vidal

What is in question is a kind of book reviewing which seems to be more and more popular: the loose putting down of opinions as though they were facts, and the treating of facts as though they were opinions.

Gore Vidal

Ayn Rand is a rhetorician who writes novels I have never been able to read.

Ayn Rand is a rhetorician who writes novels I have never been able to read.

Gore Vidal

Love is not my bag.

Love is not my bag.

Gore Vidal

I've yet to read a memoir by anyone I've known at all well that came anywhere near to the truth.

I've yet to read a memoir by anyone I've known at all well that came anywhere near to the truth.

Gore Vidal

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