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 know a lot of the Annapolis breed.

I know a lot of the Annapolis breed.

Gore Vidal

I could be a lot happier. I could be the senator from Aerospace taking bribes, and be quite happy.

I could be a lot happier. I could be the senator from Aerospace taking bribes, and be quite happy.

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I cannot remember when I was not fascinated by Henry Adams.

I cannot remember when I was not fascinated by Henry Adams.

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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

History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true.

History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true.

Gore Vidal

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

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

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I am not, at heart, a playwright.

I am not, at heart, a playwright.

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It's always best to stay out of other people's divorces. And their civil wars.

It's always best to stay out of other people's divorces. And their civil wars.

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Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.

Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.

Gore Vidal

There is a terrible garrulousness in most American writing, legacy of the old Frontier.

There is a terrible garrulousness in most American writing, legacy of the old Frontier.

Gore Vidal

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