# At Home

- Author: [Gore Vidal](https://www.leafyquotes.com/gore-vidal.md)
- Quotes: 7
- Book page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/gore-vidal/at-home

## Quotes

> In a nation that has developed to a high art advertising, the creator who refuses to advertise himself is immediately suspected of having no product worth selling.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/gore-vidal/at-home/in-a-nation.md)

> I suspect that one of the reasons we create fiction is to make sex exciting.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/gore-vidal/at-home/i-suspect-that.md)

> Class is the most difficult subject for American writers to deal with as it is the most difficult for the English to avoid.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/gore-vidal/at-home/class-is-the.md)

> I regard monotheism as the greatest disaster ever to befall the human race. I see no good in Judaism, Christianity, or Islam — good people, yes, but any religion based on a single... well, frenzied and virulent god, is not as useful to the human race as, say, Confucianism, which is not a religion but an ethical and educational system that has worked pretty well for twenty-five hundred years. So you see I am ecumenical in my dislike for the Book. But like it or not, the Book is there; and because of it people die; and the world is in danger.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/gore-vidal/at-home/i-regard-monotheism.md)

> The average "educated" American has been made to believe that, somehow, the United States must lead the world even though hardly anyone has any information at all about those countries we are meant to lead. Worse, we have very little information about our own country and its past. That is why it is not really possible to compare a writer like Howells with any living American writer because Howells thought that it was a good thing to know as much as possible about his own country as well as other countries while our writers today, in common with the presidents and paint manufacturers, live in a present without past among signs whose meanings are uninterpretable.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/gore-vidal/at-home/the-average-educated.md)

> The last best hope on earth, two trillion dollars in debt, is spinning out of control, and all we can do is stare at a flickering cathode-ray tube as Ollie "answers" questions on TV while the press, resolutely irrelevant as ever, asks politicians if they have committed adultery. From V-J Day 1945 to this has been, my fellow countrymen, a perfect nightmare.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/gore-vidal/at-home/the-last-best.md)

> My father had a deep and lifelong contempt for politicians in general ("They tell lies," he used to say with wonder, "even when they don't have to").

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