Author of quotes: Gore Vidal

When a society becomes decadent, the language also comes to decadence. The words become distorted and not be more beautiful. Words everyone should remember that during election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.

It is not enough to achieve success. Need the rest lost.

I noticed one interesting thing: as you move along the great road of life, you keep making the same damn mistakes. I can say that all of your mistakes you will repeat in the future.

Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.
Half of Americans never read Newspapers. Half did not participate in the presidential elections. One can only hope that this one half.

Style is knowing who you are and what you want to say and not care at all.

As you move the era of television the Reagans will be the rule, not the exception. All that is required from the President, to be perfect for TV.

Why are we so eager to whitewash the evildoers? Perhaps subconsciously we feel a sense of unease, realizing that they, for their part, think of us the same, though, and come out of their opposite of our interests and views.

The world's too big, so they can govern alone

This is the man: if you can't be first, he is willing to be content with what he last.

It is even surprising how passionately some individuals, allegedly alien to everything, eager to enlist the support of those in power. Under the feigned contempt for authority they conceal a desire to be closer to those who it is clothed.

Sometimes hatred is easily disguises itself in the clothes of love.

I hate gladiators because they reduce man to the level of animals, and I don't mean those unfortunates who are forced for the sake of fun to fight and kill each other. We are talking about the audience.

We, the residents of Athens, still proud to see things for what they really are. If we show the stone, we see the stone, not the Universe.

Poor Julian, like many of our contemporaries, wanted to believe that human life is so incomparably more than it really means. The disease is extremely characteristic of our epoch: we do not want to accept the finiteness of our existence that we are ready to go at all, believe any magic tricks, if only to delay the realization of the bitter secret truth that in the end we are waiting for oblivion.