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 human race is plainly nothing in eternity, but to us, in time, it is everything and ought not to die.

The human race is plainly nothing in eternity, but to us, in time, it is everything and ought not to die.

Gore Vidal

In the German concentration camps, Jews wore yellow stars while homosexuals wore pink lambdas.

In the German concentration camps, Jews wore yellow stars while homosexuals wore pink lambdas.

Gore Vidal

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

It is essential to naturalist doctrine that literature, to be good, must, finally, be the author's experience worked out literally.

It is essential to naturalist doctrine that literature, to be good, must, finally, be the author's experience worked out literally.

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

Fortunately, our audiences are used to a kind of boredom in the theatre, and if the writer is skillful, he will flatter them into thinking: 'Why, that's us up there, and aren't we - for all our little foibles - pretty nice guys and gals?'

Gore Vidal

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