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Letter "G" » Gore Vidal Quotes
«It is marvelous indeed to watch on television the rings of Saturn close; and to speculate on what we may yet find at galaxy's edge. But in the process, we have lost the human element; not to mention the high hope of those quaint days when flight would create ''one world.'' Instead of one world, we have ''star wars,'' and a future in which dumb dented human toys will drift mindlessly about the cosmos long after our small planet's dead.»
«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.»
«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.»
«The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.»
Author: Gore Vidal | Keywords: common language
«As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.»
«I like the way you always manage to state the obvious with a sense of real discovery.»
Author: Gore Vidal
«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.»
«A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.»
Author: Gore Vidal | Keywords: better-looking
«Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.»
«He will lie even when it is inconvenient: the sign of the true artist.»
Author: Gore Vidal | Keywords: inconvenient

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