# Quote — Gore Vidal, Julian

> Are we a dream in the mind of a deity, or is each of us a separate dreamer, evoking his own reality?

- Author: [Gore Vidal](https://www.leafyquotes.com/gore-vidal.md)
- Book: [Julian](https://www.leafyquotes.com/gore-vidal/julian.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Gore_Vidal#Julian_(1964)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/gore-vidal/julian/are-we-a-dream

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> It is one thing to use text to illustrate a point one is making, but quite another to quote merely to demonstrate the excellence of one's memory.

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> Constantinople has no past; only a noisy present and a splendid future, if the auguries are to be believed.

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> ...for ferocity there is nothing on Earth equal a Christian bishop hunting "heresy", as they call any opinion contrary to their own.

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