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These people [Bush Administration] are for the most part rip-off artists. Notice that they're all gas and oil men from Cheney, to the two Bushes; I think Rumsfeld also. - Gore Vidal Quotes

These people [Bush Administration] are for the most part rip-off artists. Notice that they're all gas and oil men from Cheney, to the two Bushes; I think Rumsfeld also.

The greatest pleasure when I started making money was not buying cars or yachts but finding myself able to have as many freshly typed drafts as possible. - Gore Vidal Quotes

The greatest pleasure when I started making money was not buying cars or yachts but finding myself able to have as many freshly typed drafts as possible.

American Novelist

Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn. - Gore Vidal Quotes

Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.

American Novelist Character

I am an obsessive rewriter, doing one draft and then another and another, usually five. In a way, I have nothing to say, but a great deal to add. - Gore Vidal Quotes

I am an obsessive rewriter, doing one draft and then another and another, usually five. In a way, I have nothing to say, but a great deal to add.

Draft

What is in question is a kind of book reviewing which seems to be more and more popular: the loose putting down of opinions as though they were facts, and the treating of facts as though they were opinions. - Gore Vidal Quotes

What is in question is a kind of book reviewing which seems to be more and more popular: the loose putting down of opinions as though they were facts, and the treating of facts as though they were opinions.

American Novelist Books And Reading

If most men and women were forced to rely upon physical charm to attract lovers, their sexual lives would be not only meager but in a youth-worshiping country like America, painfully brief. - Gore Vidal Quotes

If most men and women were forced to rely upon physical charm to attract lovers, their sexual lives would be not only meager but in a youth-worshiping country like America, painfully brief.

Until the rise of American advertising, it never occurred to anyone anywhere in the world that the teenager was a captive in a hostile world of adults. - Gore Vidal Quotes

Until the rise of American advertising, it never occurred to anyone anywhere in the world that the teenager was a captive in a hostile world of adults.

Adulthood American Novelist

I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television. - Gore Vidal Quotes

I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.

American Novelist

That is New York. I pointed to the waterfront just ahead as if the city were mine. - Gore Vidal Quotes

That is New York. I pointed to the waterfront just ahead as if the city were mine.

The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all. - Gore Vidal Quotes

The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.

American Novelist Memory

The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity - much less dissent. - Gore Vidal Quotes

The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity - much less dissent.

American Novelist

roughly 80 percent of police work in the United States has to do with the regulation of our private moralsÃ¢â¬Â¦controlling what we drink, eat, smoke, put into our veins ... with whom and how we have sex or gamble. - Gore Vidal Quotes

roughly 80 percent of police work in the United States has to do with the regulation of our private moralsÃ¢â¬Â¦controlling what we drink, eat, smoke, put into our veins ... with whom and how we have sex or gamble.

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 Quotes

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.

American Novelist Country

For half a century photography has been the

For half a century photography has been the "art form" of the untalented. Obviously some pictures are more satisfactory than others, but where is credit due? to the designer of the camera? To the finger on the button? To the law of averages?

Art

I'm all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults - Gore Vidal Quotes

I'm all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults

Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age. - Gore Vidal Quotes

Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.

Age And Aging American Novelist

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 Quotes

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

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. - Gore Vidal Quotes

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.

American Novelist Books And Reading

There is no such thing as a homosexual or a heterosexual person. There are only homo -- or heterosexual acts. Most people are a mixture of impulses if not practices. - Gore Vidal Quotes

There is no such thing as a homosexual or a heterosexual person. There are only homo -- or heterosexual acts. Most people are a mixture of impulses if not practices.

Acts

That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president. - Gore Vidal Quotes

That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president.

American Novelist

He's a full-fledged housewife from Kansas with all the prejudices - Gore Vidal Quotes

He's a full-fledged housewife from Kansas with all the prejudices

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 Quotes

Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made.

American Novelist Literature

A talent for drama is not a talent for writing, but is an ability to articulate human relationships. - Gore Vidal Quotes

A talent for drama is not a talent for writing, but is an ability to articulate human relationships.

Ability Theater

We are the United States of Amnesia. - Gore Vidal Quotes

We are the United States of Amnesia.

I'm a born-again atheist - Gore Vidal Quotes

I'm a born-again atheist

He (Donald) is thorough and very careful not to take sides when there's insufficient evidence, - Gore Vidal Quotes

He (Donald) is thorough and very careful not to take sides when there's insufficient evidence,

By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he's been bought ten times over. - Gore Vidal Quotes

By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he's been bought ten times over.

American Novelist Man

The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so. - Gore Vidal Quotes

The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.

American Novelist Language

There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem. - Gore Vidal Quotes

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

American Novelist

For certain people, after fifty, litigation takes the place of sex - Gore Vidal Quotes

For certain people, after fifty, litigation takes the place of sex

Rome... at its most decadent, had never thought of hiring an actor to go through the motions of being an emperor while the Praetorian Guard ruled. - Gore Vidal Quotes

Rome... at its most decadent, had never thought of hiring an actor to go through the motions of being an emperor while the Praetorian Guard ruled.

It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four percent of the people - Gore Vidal Quotes

It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four percent of the people

A narcissist is someone better looking than you are. - Gore Vidal Quotes

A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.

American Novelist

Miss Georgia and Mr Shaker Heights. - Gore Vidal Quotes

Miss Georgia and Mr Shaker Heights.

Whenever a friend succeeds a little something in me dies. - Gore Vidal Quotes

Whenever a friend succeeds a little something in me dies.

The last best hope of earth, two trillion dollars in debt, is spinning out of control, and all we can do is stare at a flickering cathode-ray tube as Ollie ''answers'' questions on TV while the press, resolutely irrelevant as ever, asks politicians if they have committed adultery. From V-J Day 1945 to this has been, my fellow countrymen, a perfect nightmare. - Gore Vidal Quotes

The last best hope of earth, two trillion dollars in debt, is spinning out of control, and all we can do is stare at a flickering cathode-ray tube as Ollie ''answers'' questions on TV while the press, resolutely irrelevant as ever, asks politicians if they have committed adultery. From V-J Day 1945 to this has been, my fellow countrymen, a perfect nightmare.

Control Twentieth Century

Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both die. - Gore Vidal Quotes

Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both die.

American Novelist Earth

Democracy is supposed to give you the feeling of choice, like Painkiller X and Painkiller Y. But they're both just aspirin. - Gore Vidal Quotes

Democracy is supposed to give you the feeling of choice, like Painkiller X and Painkiller Y. But they're both just aspirin.

American Novelist Choice

In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you're a great writer, you must say that you are. - Gore Vidal Quotes

In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you're a great writer, you must say that you are.

America American Novelist

Write something, even if it's just a suicide note. - Gore Vidal Quotes

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

American Novelist Life

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

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

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 Quotes

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

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 Quotes

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.

American Novelist Sex

Religions sprang up among men to deal with the sometimes terrifying aspects of existence, to make sense out of the senseless, to explain things we find inexplicable - Gore Vidal Quotes

Religions sprang up among men to deal with the sometimes terrifying aspects of existence, to make sense out of the senseless, to explain things we find inexplicable

Laughing at someone else is an excellent way of learning how to laugh at oneself; and questioning what seem to be the absurd beliefs of another group is a good way of recognizing the potential absurdity of many of one's own cherished beliefs. - Gore Vidal Quotes

Laughing at someone else is an excellent way of learning how to laugh at oneself; and questioning what seem to be the absurd beliefs of another group is a good way of recognizing the potential absurdity of many of one's own cherished beliefs.

Learning Sarcasm

All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself. - Gore Vidal Quotes

All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.

American Novelist Children

I don't see us winning the war. We have made enemies of one billion Muslims.

I don't see us winning the war. We have made enemies of one billion Muslims."

Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so. - Gore Vidal Quotes

Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.

American Novelist

What other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke? - Gore Vidal Quotes

What other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke?

Never have children, only grandchildren. - Gore Vidal Quotes

Never have children, only grandchildren.

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