61 Quotations by Gore Vidal
- 1. A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.
- 2. A talent for drama is not a talent for writing, but is an ability to articulate human relationships.
- 3. All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world.
- 4. Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualifi ...
- 5. Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues an ...
- 6. As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to ill ...
- 7. By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he's been bought ten times over.
- 8. Democracy is supposed to give you the feeling of choice, like Painkiller X and Painkiller Y, but the ...
- 9. Each writer is born with a repertory company in his head. Shakespeare has perhaps 20 players, and Te ...
- 10. Every time a friend succeeds, I die a little.
- 11. For certain people after fifty, litigation takes the place of sex.
- 12. For half a century photography has been the art form of the untalented. Obviously some pictures are ...
- 13. Great critics do not explicate a text; they describe it and then report on what they have described, ...
- 14. Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes i ...
- 15. Half of the American people never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is ...
- 16. I am an obsessive rewriter, doing one draft and then another and another, usually five. In a way, I ...
- 17. I can understand companionship. I can understand bought sex in the afternoon. I cannot understand th ...
- 18. I don't want anything. I don't want a job. I don't want to be respectable. I don't want prizes. I tu ...
- 19. I don't want prizes. I turned down the National Institute of Arts and Letters when I was elected to ...
- 20. I find in most novels no imagination at all. They seem to think the highest form of the novel is to ...
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