What did Gore Vidal mean by: History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true. Gore Vidal Writer · USA Copy
There are two things you never turn down: sex and appearing on television. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, Gore Vidal, Opportunities, Sex, Television, 0 Gore Vidal Writer · USA
What begins with comedy ends with comedy… in my short view of the matter. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, Gore Vidal, Closure, Comedy, Perspective, 0 Gore Vidal Writer · USA
All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, Gore Vidal, Experience, Gratitude, Progress, 0 Gore Vidal Writer · USA
By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he’s been bought ten times over. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, Gore Vidal, Corruption, Politics, Power, 0 Gore Vidal Writer · USA
Anybody, at any time, may equally find himself victim or executioner. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, Gore Vidal, Equality, Morality, Power, 0 Gore Vidal Writer · USA
To bring into the world an unwanted human being is as antisocial an act as murder. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, Gore Vidal, Ethics, Parenthood, Responsibility, 0 Gore Vidal Writer · USA
What is there to say, finally, except that pain is bad and pleasure good, life all, death nothing. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, Gore Vidal, Life, Pain, Pleasure, 0 Gore Vidal Writer · USA
I have always found men quite fathomable. They look entirely to their own interest. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, Gore Vidal, Perception, Self-interest, Understanding, 0 Gore Vidal Writer · USA
Art is not a reflection of reality, it is the reality of a reflection. Read explanation Jean-Luc Godard Filmmaker · France
If art, all art, is concerned with truth, then a society in denial will not find much use for it. Jeanette Winterson Author · England
There are truths which one can only say after having won the right to say them. Read explanation Jean Cocteau Artist · France
What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end. Jean Cocteau Artist · France
