Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild. Gore Vidal More Quotes by Gore Vidal More Quotes From Gore Vidal Populists have never had a good press in Freedom's land. Gore Vidal populist presses land One's neighbor is always the enemy. That is the nature of things. Gore Vidal neighbor enemy Whether you have an abortion, what you put in your own body, with whom you have sex - these are not affairs of the state. A government does not exist to control the citizens. When it does, it is a tyranny, and must be fought. The tree of liberty, Jefferson warned us, must be refreshed with the blood of tyrants and patriots. Gore Vidal government sex blood God, or what have you, will not be found at the far end of a syllogism, no matter how brilliantly phrased or conceived. Gore Vidal ends matter found 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 secret advice father Most writers write books that they wouldn't read. I ought to know; I've done it myself. Gore Vidal done writing book Where there is no desire or pursuits, there is no wholeness. But there are satisfying lesser states, fragments. Gore Vidal pursuit states desire Once people get hung up on theology, they've lost sanity forever. Gore Vidal sanity forever people Those who have not undergone minor disasters are usually being held in reserve for something major Gore Vidal minors reserves disaster France is a nation devoted to the false hypothesis on which it then builds marvelously logical structures. Gore Vidal logical france structure Nonprofit status is what created the Bible Belt. The tax code brought religion back to this country. Gore Vidal nonprofits belts country The only absolute attainment is absolute abandonment. Gore Vidal abandonment attainment absolutes Now the long-feared Asiatic colossus takes its turn as world leader, and we--the white race--have become the yellow man's burden.Let us hope that he will treat us more kindly than we treated him. Gore Vidal race yellow men Having no talent is no longer enough. Gore Vidal talent enough But women are always attracted to power. I do not think there could ever be a conqueror so bloody that most women would not willingly lie with him in the hope of bearing a son who would be every bit as ferocious as the father. Gore Vidal father lying son Most lives are spent putting on and taking off masks. Gore Vidal mask It is vice to go to bed with someone you are not married to or have someone of your own sex or to get money for having sex with someone who does not appeal to you-incidentally, the basis of half the marriages of my generation. Gore Vidal bed vices sex I'm in favor of any form of sexual relationship that gives pleasure to those involved. And I have never heard a convincing argument to the contrary. Gore Vidal argument favors giving If you want to rise in politics in the United States, there is one subject you must stay away from, and that is politics. Gore Vidal united-states subjects want Truman Capote has made lying an art. A minor art. Gore Vidal truman lying art
