61 Quotations by Gore Vidal
- 41. The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western World. No Fi ...

- 42. The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning th ...

- 43. The last best hope of earth, two trillion dollars in debt, is spinning out of control, and all we ca ...

- 44. The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who ...

- 45. There is hardly an American male of my generation who has not at one time or another tried to master ...

- 46. There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.

- 47. There is no such thing as a homosexual or a heterosexual person. There are only homo or heterosexual ...

- 48. There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.

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

- 50. Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers ...

- 51. To a man, ornithologists are tall, slender, and bearded so that they can stand motionless for hours, ...

- 52. Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence t ...

- 53. Trust a nitwit society like this one to think that there are only two categories - fag and straight.

- 54. Until the rise of American advertising, it never occurred to anyone anywhere in the world that the t ...

- 55. We must declare ourselves, become known; allow the world to discover this subterranean life of ours ...

- 56. We're not a democracy.

- 57. What is in question is a kind of book reviewing which seems to be more and more popular: the loose p ...

- 58. Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.

- 59. Write something, even if it's just a suicide note.

- 60. Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.

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