5 Gore Vidal Quotes on Relationships

Gore Vidal quotes on relationships

47. I can understand companionship. I can understand bought sex in the afternoon, but I cannot understand the love affair.

64. When I was young, I was bored shitless with being desired by others. I don't look in the mirror anymore.

65. I lived with Howard [Austen] for fifty years, but what we had was certainly not romantic love, not passionate love. And it certainly was nonsexual. Try to explain that to the fags.

73. 'You got to meet everyone - Jackie Kennedy, William Burroughs.' People always put that sentence the wrong way around. I mean, why not put it the true way, that these people got to meet me, and wanted to? Otherwise it sounds like I spent my life hustling around trying to meet people: 'Oh, look, there's the governor.'

74. I met a lot of people, but I didn't get to know them.