Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" Now you have people in Washington who have no interest in the country at all. They're interested in their companies, their corporations grabbing Caspian oil. "
Gore Vidal
Washington
Oil
Country
Related Quotes:
" Corporations must pay tax. "
Gore Vidal
Must
Tax
Pay
" I could be a lot happier. I could be the senator from Aerospace taking bribes, and be quite happy. "
Gore Vidal
Aerospace
Lot
Senator
" The truth about Pearl Harbour is obscured to this day. But it has been much studied. "
Gore Vidal
Much
Been
Day
" I hate nobody. "
Gore Vidal
Hate
Nobody
" In character, as it were, the writer settles for an impression of what happened rather than creating the sense of the thing happening. "
Gore Vidal
Creating
Sense
Impression
" An important governorship used to be the best springboard for would-be presidents. "
Gore Vidal
Used
Best
Presidents
" I've yet to read a memoir by anyone I've known at all well that came anywhere near to the truth. "
Gore Vidal
Well
Truth
Read
" Some of my father's fellow West Pointers once asked him why I turned out so well, his secret in raising me. And he said, 'I never gave him any advice, and he never asked for any.' We agreed on nothing, but we never quarreled once. "
Gore Vidal
Why
Nothing
Advice
" 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
Lose
Choose
Time
" By the end of World War II, we were the most powerful and least damaged of the great nations. We also had most of the money. America's hegemony lasted exactly five years. "
Gore Vidal
Great
End
World
" A narcissist is someone better looking than you are. "
Gore Vidal
Looking
Better
You
" It is essential to naturalist doctrine that literature, to be good, must, finally, be the author's experience worked out literally. "
Gore Vidal
Literature
Good
Finally
" Remember, I'm West Point, where I was born. My father went there. "
Gore Vidal
Remember
Born
Father
" In the German concentration camps, Jews wore yellow stars while homosexuals wore pink lambdas. "
Gore Vidal
Pink
Jews
Yellow
" In writing and politicking, it's best not to think about it, just do it. "
Gore Vidal
Just
Writing
Think
" World War II made prosperous the United States, which had been undergoing a depression for a dozen years, and made very rich those magnates and their managers who govern the republic - with many a wink - in the people's name. "
Gore Vidal
War
World
Depression
" My family is Southern. I'm used to Bill Clintons. "
Gore Vidal
Family
Bill
Used
" Anybody who is stupid enough to want to be remembered deserves to be forgotten right now. "
Gore Vidal
Want
Now
Enough
" In essence, Clinton's Anti-Terrorism Act would set up a national police force, over the long-dead bodies of the founders. "
Gore Vidal
Police
Act
Force
" Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they're scraping the top of the barrel. "
Gore Vidal
Television
Now
Material
" 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
Edge
Enough
Life
" I know a lot of the Annapolis breed. "
Gore Vidal
Breed
Know
Lot
" As for my support for Obama, remember that I was brought up in Washington. It was an all-black city when I was a kid. And I've always been very pro-African-American - or whatever phrase we now use. "
Gore Vidal
Remember
Now
City
" There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise. "
Gore Vidal
Which
Human
People
" What the Kinseyites and I had in common so long ago was the knowledge that homosexual and heterosexual behavior are natural to all mammals, and that what differs from individual to individual is the balance between these two complementary but not necessarily conflicted drives. "
Gore Vidal
Two
Balance
Behavior
" Sex is. There is nothing more to be done about it. Sex builds no roads, writes no novels and sex certainly gives no meaning to anything in life but itself. "
Gore Vidal
Life
Done
Meaning
" Primarily, I am a prose writer with axes to grind, and the theatre is a good place to do the grinding in. I prefer comedy to 'serious' drama because I believe one can get the ax sharper on the comedic stone. "
Gore Vidal
Believe
I Am
Place
" A friend was surprised to hear me say that there was not one moment of my past that I would like to relive. "
Gore Vidal
Me
Say
Moment
" Obama just came swiftly out of nowhere, which was a relief to those of us who care about the Republic, and at first he seemed a very good thing. "
Gore Vidal
Republic
First
Us
" It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true. "
Gore Vidal
Spirit
Exercise
True