Gore Vidal

Citations

• “It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, however suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true.”

• “In a good cause hypocrisy becomes a virtue.”

• “His fault was a common one. He simply did not know what he was;he saw no flaw in himself, a not unusual blindness and preferable, on the whole , to being unable to find any virtue in oneself.”

• “Traitors who prevail are patriots; usurpers who succeed are divine emperors.”

• “There is no terror equal that of the ignorant in a strange place.”