Quote

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

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Gore Vidal
Age: 86 †
Born: 1925
Born: October 3
Died: 2012
Died: July 31
Actor
Essayist
Journalist
Literary Critic
Non-Fiction Writer
Novelist
Opinion Journalist
Playwright
Politician
Prosaist
West Point
New York
Eugene Luther Gore Vidal
Gor Vidal
Cameron Kay
Eugene Luther Vidal
Edgar Box
Katherine Everard
Eugene Vidal
Work
Reminders
Theatre
Theater
Worth
Wells
Well
Nothing
Debasing
Needs
Continual

More quotes by Gore Vidal

Image
I find in most novels no imagination at all. They seem to think the highest form of the novel is to write about marriage, because that's the most important thing there is for middle-class people.
Gore Vidal
Image
Each writer is born with a repertory company in his head.
Gore Vidal
Image
A superficial education would be worse than none. But a full education would open every man's eyes to the nature of human existence.
Gore Vidal
Image
Envy is the central fact of American life.
Gore Vidal
Image
CO₂ emissions anywhere threaten civilisation everywhere.
Gore Vidal
Image
To speak today of a famous novelist is like speaking of a famous cabinetmaker or speedboat designer. Adjective is inappropriate to noun.
Gore Vidal
Image
First coffee, then a bowel movement. Then the Muse joins me.
Gore Vidal
Image
Miss Rand now tells us that what we have thought was right is really wrong. The lesson should have read: One for one and none for all.
Gore Vidal
Image
Everything's wrong on Wikipedia.
Gore Vidal
Image
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
Image
There are certain truths so true that they are practically unbelievable.
Gore Vidal
Image
The Gores, I think, are a bit brighter than the Bushes, historically speaking.
Gore Vidal
Image
France is a nation devoted to the false hypothesis on which it then builds marvelously logical structures.
Gore Vidal
Image
You can improve your talent, but your talent is a given, a mysterious constant. You must make it the best of its kind.
Gore Vidal
Image
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
Image
I spend most of my time in California. I feel I am fueled by rage and by the political climate there. I am angry most of the time when I am there, which might be unbearable for someone else, but for me it's fuel for my writing.
Gore Vidal
Image
True wisdom is to know the extent of what you don't know quite as well as you know what you do know.
Gore Vidal
Image
[ New York ] is a place that worships incompetence particularly if it's combined with energy and paranoid self-confidence. Only in a city like New York could Truman Capote have made it, or John Simon.
Gore Vidal
Image
Nixon was a Southern Rim President, and so antipathetic to the old guard.
Gore Vidal
Image
I don't think contemporary writers spend a lot of time reading each other. Particularly writers of the same nationality.
Gore Vidal