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At Home: Essays 1982-1988 QUOTES

At Home: Essays 1982-1988 QUOTES

1 " To a born-again atheist like myself, it is clear that each of us has multiple selves, talents, perceptions. But to the Roman Catholic, unity is all. "

― Gore Vidal , At Home: Essays 1982-1988

2 " 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. "

― Gore Vidal , At Home: Essays 1982-1988

3 " [T]here is no such thing as a homosexual or a heterosexual person. There are only homo- or heterosexual acts. Most people are a mixture of impulses if not practices, and what anyone does with a willing partner is of no social or cosmic significance. "

― Gore Vidal , At Home: Essays 1982-1988