# Palimpsest: A Memoir

- Author: [Gore Vidal](https://www.leafyquotes.com/gore-vidal.md)
- Quotes: 3
- Book page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/gore-vidal/palimpsest-a-memoir

## Quotes

> I used to be able to summon up scenes at will, but now aging memory is so busy weeding its own garden that, promiscuously, it pulls up roses as well as crabgrass.

p. 162 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/gore-vidal/palimpsest-a-memoir/i-used-to-be-able.md)

> Celebrities are invariably celebrity-mad, just as liars always believe liars.

p. 311 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/gore-vidal/palimpsest-a-memoir/celebrities-are-invariably.md)

> Anais Nin gave me my most original, or so I thought, creation.As I read Incest, I realized that something which I had always taken to be unique, the voice of Myra Breckinridge, was actually that of Anaïs in all the flowing megalomania of the diaries. Of course, I had not read the diaries then, but even so, if only for that one thundering voice, I am forever in her debt.

p. 107 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/gore-vidal/palimpsest-a-memoir/anais-nin-gave.md)