{"author":"Gore Vidal","author_id":"Gore+Vidal","total_quotes":74,"quotes":[{"text":"It is of no consequence what others think of you. What matters is what you think of them. That is how you live your life.","author":"Gore Vidal","tags":["charlie-rose-show","life-philosophy","opinions-of-others"],"id":5194,"author_id":"Gore+Vidal"},{"text":"A talent for drama is not a talent for writing  but is an ability to articulate human relationships.","author":"Gore Vidal","tags":["acting","theatre"],"id":11500,"author_id":"Gore+Vidal"},{"text":"We do not want to old to be sharper than we. It is bad enough that they were there first, and got the best things.","author":"Gore Vidal","tags":["aaron-burr","age"],"id":18045,"author_id":"Gore+Vidal"},{"text":"Presidents have absolutely gone against the will of Congress. Congress hasn't declared a war since December 7, 1941, and yet we've been at war ever since with somebody or other in order to justify the war machine. Now we have alienated almost the entire earth.","author":"Gore Vidal","tags":["politics","war"],"id":19276,"author_id":"Gore+Vidal"},{"text":"The malice of a true Christian attempting to destroy an opponent is something unique in the world. No other religion ever considered it necessary to destroy others because they did not share the same beliefs. At worst, another man's belief might inspire amusement or contempt—the Egyptians and their animal gods, for instance. Yet those who worshipped the Bull did not try to murder those who worshipped the Snake, or to convert them by force from Snake to Bull. No evil ever entered the world quite so vividly or on such a vast scale as Christianity did.","author":"Gore Vidal","tags":["1962","christianity","evils-of-hatred","heresy","holy-war","hypocrisy","priscus","worship"],"id":19886,"author_id":"Gore+Vidal"},{"text":"But like so many others nowadays, poor Julian wanted to believe that man's life is profoundly more significant than it is. His sickness was the sickness of our age. We want so much not to be extinguished at the end that we will go to any length to make conjuror-tricks for one another simply to obscure the bitter, secret knowledge that it is our fate not to be.","author":"Gore Vidal","tags":["1962","afterlife","death","mystery","mysticism","priscus","religion","resurrection"],"id":50539,"author_id":"Gore+Vidal"},{"text":"By the end of World War II, we were the most powerful and least damaged of the great nations. We also had most of the money. America's hegemony lasted exactly five years.","author":"Gore Vidal","tags":["money","great","america "],"id":51458,"author_id":"Gore+Vidal"},{"text":"Prepare yourself for some bad news: Ronald Reagan’s library just burned down. Both books were destroyed. But the real horror: He hadn’t finished coloring either one of them.","author":"Gore Vidal","tags":["fun","funny","gore-vidal","humor","political","politics","reagan","ronald-reagan"],"id":84147,"author_id":"Gore+Vidal"},{"text":"There is something about the state putting the power to bully into the hands of subnormal, sadistic apes that makes my blood boil.","author":"Gore Vidal","tags":["police","politics","society"],"id":94867,"author_id":"Gore+Vidal"},{"text":"To a born-again atheist like myself, it is clear that each of us has multiple selves, talents, perceptions. But to the Roman Catholic, unity is all.","author":"Gore Vidal","tags":["atheism","atheist","born-again","religion"],"id":95079,"author_id":"Gore+Vidal"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":74,"pages":8,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}