There are certain truths so true that they are practically unbelievable. Gore Vidal More Quotes by Gore Vidal More Quotes From Gore Vidal I suppose that one is always tempted to challenge those who think that they and they alone possess the truth or the way or the key to the mystery. Gore Vidal keyschallengesthinking I am a correctionist. If something is wrong in society, it must be fixed. At least one should try to fix it. Gore Vidal reformshouldtrying The most interesting thing about writing is the way that it obliterates time. Three hours seem like three minutes. Then there is the business of surprise. I never know what is coming next. The phrase that sounds in the head changes when it appears on the page. Then I start probing it with a pen, finding new meanings. Sometimes I burst out laughing at what is happening as I twist and turn sentences. Strange business, all in all. One never gets to the end of it. That’s why I go on, I suppose. To see what the next sentences I write will be. Gore Vidal writinglaughinginteresting The U.S. Bill of Rights is being steadily eroded, with two million telephone calls tapped, 30 million workers under electronic surveillance, and, says the author, countless Americans harassed by a government that wages spurious wars against drugs and terrorism. Gore Vidal governmentrightswar They are longing for a war with Iran. Iran is no more a harm to us than was Iraq or Afghanistan. They invented an enemy, they tell lies, lies, lies. The New York Times goes along with their lies, lies, lies. And they don't stop. When the public that's lied to 30 times a day it's apt to believe the lies, is not it? Gore Vidal new-yorkwarlying To hear two American men congratulating each other on being heterosexual is one of the most chilling experiences - and unique to the United States. You don't hear two Italians sitting around complimenting each other because they actually like to go to bed with women. The American is hysterical about his manhood. Gore Vidal uniquementwo The first TV babies are now writing with a TV mind that has no attention span at all. Gore Vidal mindwritingbaby Actually, there is no such thing as a homosexual person, any more than there is such a thing as a heterosexual person. The words are adjectives describing sexual acts, not people. The sexual acts are entirely normal; if they were not, no one would perform them. Gore Vidal adjectivesnormalpeople The malady of civilized man is his knowledge of death. The good artist, like the wise man, addresses himself to life and invests with his private vision the deeds and thoughts of men. The creation of a work of art, like an act of love, is our one small 'yes' at the center of a vast 'no'. Gore Vidal wiselove-isart Who gives a damn about being remembered? That's really for amateurs. Gore Vidal remembereddamngiving By 1948, the Italians had begun to pull themselves together, demonstrating once more their astonishing ability to cope with disaster which is so perfectly balanced by their absolute inability to deal with success Gore Vidal disasterinabilitytogether World events are the work of individuals whose motives are often frivolous, even casual. Gore Vidal individualeventsworld American writers want to be not good but great; and so are neither. Gore Vidal american-writerwant The same people own the media that own the White House that own the Congress that own the oil fields. They all work together to give a false view of the world to the American people. Gore Vidal oilmediawhite We must always remember that the police are recruited from the criminal classes. Gore Vidal criminalspoliceclass We are given our place in time as we are given our eyes: weak, strong, clear, squinting, the thing is not ours to choose. Well, this has been a squinting, walleyed time to be born in. Gore Vidal squintingeyestrong I have been asked whether I wish to nominate a successor, an inheritor, a dauphin or delfino. I have decided to name Christopher Hitchens. Gore Vidal has-beensnameswish Monotheism is easily the greatest disaster to befall the human race. Gore Vidal disasterhumansrace Despite the warnings of other times, the impetuous and the confident continue their indiscriminate cultivation of weeds at the expense of occasional flowers. Gore Vidal weedflowercriticism Novels, except as aids to masturbation, play no part in contemporary life. Gore Vidal masturbationplayfiction
