96 Top Quotes By Gore Vidal, The Author Of Julian
Eugene Louis Vidal, better known as Gore Vidal, was a novelist, essayist, playwright and screenwriter from the United States, who was also regarded as one of the leading public intellectuals in the world in the 20th century. He was born in a distinguished family, which was politically active and his grandfather on the mother’s side was in fact a senator. Vidal was a political thinker, writer and intellectual whose primary focus was on the history of America, with special focus on the politics and foreign policy. He was an essayist for some of the leading publications like Esquire Magazine, The Nation and New York Review of Books among others. Vidal’s writing skills quickly established him as one of the leading intellectuals and thinkers in the United States, while his books made him a household name in the country. Some of his most well-known books include ‘The City and the Pillar’, ‘Burr’, ‘Lincoln’, ‘Julian’ and ‘Myra Breckinridge’ among others. ‘Myra Breckinridge’ was also turned into a film which drew a lot of controversy due to its contents. Vidal was also a master debater who went toe to toe with some of the leading thinkers of the day in televised debates and captivated audiences with the force of his arguments and his eloquence. Here are some of the very best Gore Vidal one liners and quotes.
The unfed mind devours itself.
How marvelous books are, crossing worlds and centuries, defeating ignorance and, finally, cruel time itself.
Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.
Write something, even if it's just a suicide note.
Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.
The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.
Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either.
Every time a friend succeeds, I die a little.
The important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.
It is not enough merely to win; others must lose.
I’m not sentimental about anything. Life flows by, and you flow with it or you don’t. Move on and move out.
Monotheism is easily the greatest disaster to befall the human race.
I sometimes think it is because they are so bad at expressing themselves verbally that writers take to pen and paper in the first place
There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.
A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.
Always a godfather, never a god.
We are the United States of Amnesia, we learn nothing because we remember nothing.
The idea of a good society is something you do not need a religion and eternal punishment to buttress; you need a religion if you are terrified of death.
Andy Warhol is the only genius I've ever known with an IQ of 60.
To a born-again atheist like myself, it is clear that each of us has multiple selves, talents, perceptions. But to the Roman Catholic, unity is all.
Write what you know will always be excellent advice for those who ought not to write at all. Write what you think, what you imagine, what you suspect!
Southerners make good novelists: they have so many stories because they have so much family.
As the age of television progresses the Reagans will be the rule, not the exception. To be perfect for television is all a President has to be these days.
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A writer must always tell the truth (unless he's a journalist)
As I looked back over my life, I realized that I enjoyed nothing--not art, not sex--more than going to the movies.
There is only one party in the United States, the Property Party … and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat.
Traitors who prevail are patriots; usurpers who succeed are divine emperors.
Love is a fan club with only two fans.
I suspect that one of the reasons we create fiction is to make sex exciting.
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
