Quote

The problem with most Americans is that they don't like any question that takes more than ten seconds to answer.

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
Question
Answers
Takes
Problem
Like
Seconds
Ten
Answer
Americans

More quotes by Gore Vidal

Image
CO₂ emissions anywhere threaten civilisation everywhere.
Gore Vidal
Image
Most writers write books that they wouldn't read. I ought to know I've done it myself.
Gore Vidal
Image
Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.
Gore Vidal
Image
Constant work, constant writing and constant revision. The real writer learns nothing from life. He is more like an oyster or a sponge. What he takes in he takes in normally the way any person takes in experience. But it is what is done with it in his mind, if he is a real writer, that makes his art.
Gore Vidal
Image
A good deed never goes unpunished.
Gore Vidal
Image
You see we adults have learned how to disguise our terrible characters but a child... well, it's like a grotesque drawing of us. They should be neither seen nor heard. And no one must make another one.
Gore Vidal
Image
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.
Gore Vidal
Image
The real writer learns nothing from life. He is more like an oyster or a sponge.
Gore Vidal
Image
I have never been particularly impressed by the self centered musings of my fellow writers.
Gore Vidal
Image
We affect one another quite enough merely by existing. Whenever the stars cross, or is it comets? fragments pass briefly from one orbit to another. On rare occasions there is total collision, but most often the two simply continue without incident, neither losing more than a particle to the other, in passing.
Gore Vidal
Image
Although the notion of one god may give comfort to those in need of a daddy, it reminds the rest of us that the totalitarian society is grounded upon the concept of God the father. One paternal god, one paternal leader. Authority is absolute.
Gore Vidal
Image
As one gets older, litigation replaces sex.
Gore Vidal
Image
I can understand companionship. I can understand bought sex in the afternoon, but I cannot understand the love affair.
Gore Vidal
Image
Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.
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
To bring into the world an unwanted human being is as antisocial an act as murder.
Gore Vidal
Image
I have no television to go on so I get a lot of writing done. That's my substitute for television.
Gore Vidal
Image
Andy Warhol is the only genius I've ever known with an IQ of 60.
Gore Vidal
Image
Come to me and show me a small cancer and I'll tell you you've got a small cancer that should be cut out. That's realism but in America it's called cynicism.
Gore Vidal
Image
Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild.
Gore Vidal