The best Quotes by Gore Vidal

The best Quotes by Gore Vidal

Eugene Luther Gore Vidal (born Eugene Louis Vidal, October 3, 1925 – July 31, 2012) was an American writer and public intellectual known for his epigrammatic wit. His novels and essays interrogated the social and cultural sexual norms he perceived as driving American life.

At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation and prejudice.

Prejudice Superstition

I'm not a conspiracy theorist - I'm a conspiracy analyst.

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

Write something, even if it's just a suicide note.

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.

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That's L.A. They worship everything and they value nothing.

Sebastian Wilder in La La Land

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Welcome to a city where people trying to disappear aren't actually trying.

Joe Goldberg in You - Season 2 Episode 2

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I lived in L.A. for a few months. It seemed like no one there had parents. Or if they did have parents, they would deny it.

Catherine O'Hara

1

Linda: "Why did you decide to come to Los Angeles?"
Lucifer: "The same reason as everyone else: the weather, p*rnstars, Mexican food."

Lucifer Morningstar in Lucifer - Season 1 Episode 3

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People here in Los Angeles are disgusted now about a sex scandal involving Arnold Schwarzenegger. Apparently for seven years, he carried on a sexual relationship with his own wife.

Craig Kilborn

Los Angeles was the kind of place where everybody was from somewhere else and nobody really droppped anchor.

Michael Connelly in The Lincoln Lawyer - The Brass Verdict

The L.A. weather is a lot like Taiwan's, where you don't observe four seasons, so the years can pass and you don't feel a thing.

Los Angeles Taiwan

You're lucky we're not in Los Angeles, because Angelinos can smell BS a mile away.

Melinda Monroe in Virgin River - Season 1 Episode 1

I'm from the Compton slums, and that's how the West ride
I'm from the city where two of the best died

The Game - The City, Album: The R.E.D. Album

The Notorious B.I.G.Eazy-E Los Angeles

I moved to Los Angeles for two reasons. One is to run away from a boy. Two is to chase a boy.

Kelly Mi Li in Bling Empire

If I lived in L.A., I'd be schizophrenic after a week.

Matthew Goode

I'm rich, I'm miserable - I'm pretty average for this town.

Michael De Santa in GTA - Grand Theft Auto - V

Riggs: "You want me to drive?"
Murtaugh: "No, you're supposed to be suicidal, remember? I'll drive."
Riggs: "Anybody who drives around in this town IS suicidal."

Martin Riggs in Lethal Weapon

Miss Carter, you have no idea how foreign Los Angeles will seem to a civilized person such as yourself. They eat avocados... with everything!

Edwin Jarvis in Agent Carter - Season 2 Episode 1

California has officially announced that jaywalking is now no longer a crime. So congratulations to the Californians who like walking places. This is great news for the six of you.

Trevor Noah in The Daily Show - October 2022

New Mexico. It's another state. I mean, it's like California, just less traffic.

Lalo Salamanca in Better Call Saul - Season 6 Episode 5

California New Mexico

We all have our little faults. Mine's in California.

Lex Luthor in Superman

All creative people should be required to leave California for three months every year.

Gloria Swanson

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Helsinki may not be as cold as you make it out to be, but California is still a lot nicer. I don't remember the last time I couldn't walk around in shorts all day.

Linus Torvalds

California Helsinki

The apparent ease of California life is an illusion, and those who believe the illusion real live here in only the most temporary way.

Joan Didion

Things are tough all over, cupcake. An' it rains on the just an' the unjust alike... except in California.

Silk Spectre in Watchmen -

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Justice California

I read the Life magazine articles about free love and free dope in California. At age 20 I drove to Los Angeles.

Los Angeles California

That's the great thing about California, you can almost go to the mountains and almost go to the beach on the same day.

Leonard Hofstadter in The Big Bang Theory - Season 11 Episode 11

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You know what's remarkable? That England looks in no way like Southern California.

Austin Powers in Austin Powers - The Spy Who Shagged Me

England & Great Britain California

It's the edge of the world
And all of Western civilization
The sun may rise in the east
At least it's settled in a final location
It's understood that Hollywood sells Californication

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication, Album: Californication

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I drank when I was pregnant with you, you turned out fine. There's everybody saying 'don't drink, don't smoke'. I swear - Texas is turning into California.

Sheldons Großmutter "Meemaw" in Young Sheldon - Season 1 Episode 9

California Texas

In California, they don't throw their garbage away - they make it into TV shows.

Woody Allen

Television California Trash TV

They say money can't buy happiness, but it can buy a flight to California - and that's pretty much the same thing.

It is harder to crack a prejudice than an atom.

Albert Einstein

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Prejudice Atoms

I happen to think that the singular evil of our time is prejudice. It is from this evil that all other evils grow and multiply.

Rod Serling

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I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.

W. C. Fields

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Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.

E. B. White

1

Prejudice Facts

In my experience, it is unwise to live one's life guessing after signs and portents.

Elendil in The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power - Season 1 Episode 3

Let's not be superstitious - it brings bad luck.

Superstition is a sign of a weak mind.

Honoré de Balzac

Superstition is the child of fear, weakness and ignorance.

Frederick the Great

If there is a country that has committed unspeakable atrocities in the world, it is the United States of America. They don’t care for human beings.

Nelson Mandela

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This is America. Anyone can eat what they want, as long as they eat too much.

Homer Simpson in The Simpsons - Season 24 Episode 5

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We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

Thomas Jefferson in Declaration of Independence

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Human Rights USA Famous Quotes Independence Day

We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.

Martin Luther King

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Tolerance USA Independence Day

We all know, of course, what to make of our newspapers. The deaf man writes down what the blind man has told him, the village idiot edits it, and their colleagues in the other press houses copy it.

Timur Vermes in Look Who's Back

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Newspapers Fake News

Come on Ted, it's 2012. What do you expect, to meet some cute travel agent when you're reading a newspaper at a bookstore? None of those things exist anymore!

Barney Stinson in How I Met Your Mother - Season 7 Episode 22

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Newspapers 2012

How about a copy of the New York Times? It's like reading the internet, but on paper!

Juan Ruiz in The Imperfects - Season 1 Episode 1

All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that's an alibi for my ignorance.

Will Rogers

Some a-hole leaks it online and I'm like, you know, looking at the guy in the mirror brushing my teeth, "Dude, what have you done? This could be punishable by law!" But the internet forced the studio to say, "We're gonna make this movie", and 24 hours later, that movie had a green light.

Ryan Reynolds - September 2025

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