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

Vidal, Gore on sex
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"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."

Vidal, Gore on space   

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

Vidal, Gore on style
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"To a man, ornithologists are tall, slender, and bearded so that they can stand motionless for hours, imitating kindly trees, as they watch for birds."

Vidal, Gore on birds   

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

Vidal, Gore on bureaucracy   

"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."

Vidal, Gore on charm   

"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."

Vidal, Gore on twentieth century   

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

Vidal, Gore on voting   

"Half of the American people never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half."

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

Vidal, Gore on writers and writing   

"Each writer is born with a repertory company in his head. Shakespeare has perhaps 20 players, and Tennessee Williams has about 5, and Samuel Beckett one -- and maybe a clone of that one. I have 10 or so, and that's a lot. As you get older, you become more skillful at casting them."

Vidal, Gore on writers and writing
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"Never have children, only grand children."

Vidal, Gore on children   

"Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences."

Vidal, Gore on audiences
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"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."

Vidal, Gore on population   

"It is difficult to find a reputable American historian who will acknowledge the crude fact that a Franklin Roosevelt, say, wanted to be President merely to wield power, to be famed and to be feared. To learn this simple fact one must wade through a sea of"

Vidal, Gore on power   

"The typical metrosexual is a young man with money to spend, living in or within easy reach of a metropolis - because that’s where all the best shops, clubs, gyms and hairdressers are. He might be officially gay, straight or bisexual, but this is utterly immaterial because he has clearly taken himself as his own love object and pleasure as his sexual preference. Particular professions, such as modeling, waiting tables, media, pop music and, nowadays, sport, seem to attract them but, truth be told, like male vanity products and herpes, they’re pretty much everywhere."

Simpson, Mark on sex   

"It’s a straightforward matter of equality: it’s outrageously unfair that heterosexuals shoulder alone the burden of keeping divorce lawyers in Italian sports cars"

Simpson, Mark on marriage   

"Gays have become the unpaid secretaries of desire, filing and cataloguing human weakness. Promiscuity is now a form of bureaucracy. Tedious, eye-straining, number-crunching slave work"

Simpson, Mark on internet   

"Every man would suck his own penis if he could, but that’s why God gave every man except Jeff Stryker a penis shorter than his backbone - to make sure they expended an awful lot of energy doing other things to get blow jobs. Things that might seem to some rather daft and pointless otherwise, but without which the world would be a duller place - things such as rock ‘n’ roll, politics, cunnilingus, religion, and odd-jobs around the home."

Simpson, Mark on sex   

"Every night was wet jockstrap night (without the jockstrap) at the Roman baths, and especially well-endowed bathers were likely to be greeted with a round of applause. During the reign of notorious size-queen Emperor Elagabalus, those who hung low at the baths were promoted to high office"

Simpson, Mark on swimming   

"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."

Vidal, Gore on theater   

"All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world."

Vidal, Gore on twentieth century   

"Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates."

Vidal, Gore on democracy   

"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."

Vidal, Gore on sex   

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

Vidal, Gore on democracy   

"We need a new kind of feminism, one that stresses personal responsibility and is open to art and sex in all their dark, unconsoling mysteries. The feminist of the fin de si?cle will be bawdy, streetwise, and on-the-spot confrontational, in the prankish Sixties way."

Paglia, Camille on feminism   

"In the theory of gender I began from zero. There is no masculine power or privilege I did not covet. But slowly, step by step, decade by decade, I was forced to acknowledge that even a woman of abnormal will cannot escape her hormonal identity."

Paglia, Camille on gender
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"My thinking tends to be libertarian. That is, I oppose intrusions of the state into the private realm -- as in abortion, sodomy, prostitution, pornography, drug use, or suicide, all of which I would strongly defend as matters of free choice in a representative democracy."

Paglia, Camille on anarchism
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"A talent for drama is not a talent for writing, but is an ability to articulate human relationships."

Vidal, Gore on theater   

"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."

Vidal, Gore on media
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"A narcissist is someone better looking than you are."

Vidal, Gore on vanity
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"Among all the emotions, the rich have the least talent for love. It is possible to love one's dog, dress or duck-shooting hat, but a human being presents a more difficult problem. The rich might wish to experience feelings of affection, but it is almost impossible to chip away the enamel of their narcissism. They take up all the space in all the mirrors in the house. Their children, who represent the most present and therefore the most annoying claim on their attention, usually receive the brunt of their irritation."

Lapham, Lewis H. on riches   

"Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies."

Vidal, Gore on envy
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"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."

Vidal, Gore on sex
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"Love and sex can go together and sex and unlove can go together and love and unsex can go together. But personal love and personal sex is bad."

Warhol, Andy on compatibility
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"Any idiot can get laid when they're famous. That's easy. It's getting laid when you're not famous that takes some talent."

Bacon, Kevin on sex
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"Sex is the most fun you can have without laughing."

Allen, Woody on sex
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"The end is never as satisfying as the journey. To have achieved everything but to have done so without integrity and excitement is to have achieved nothing."

Unknown, Source on ending
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"Our salvation is in striving to achieve what we know we'll never achieve."

Kapuscinski, Ryszard on ideals and idealism
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"Help others achieve their dreams and you will achieve yours."

Brown, Les on dream
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