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• It is notable how little empathy is cultivated or valued in our society. I put this down to our traditional racism and obsessive sectarianism. Even so, one would think that we would be encouraged to project ourselves into the character of someone of a different race or class, if only to be able to control him. But no effort is made.

  Gore Vidal

  Character, Thinking, Race

  Gore Vidal (1992). “Screening history”, Harvard Univ Pr

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• Junto a "yo gano", "te lo dije" son las palabras más dulces.

  Gore Vidal

  Winning, Smugness, Next

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• I'm in favor of any form of sexual relationship that gives pleasure to those involved. And I have never heard a convincing argument to the contrary.

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  Giving, Favors, Argument

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• I liked the trichotomy, that's the only thing I ever liked.

  Gore Vidal

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• "Terrorism" is a metaphor, it's an abstract noun. It's like having a war on dandruff. It's something from advertising, it's meaningless.

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  War, Nouns, Advertising

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• To justify and extol human greed and egotism is to my mind not only immoral, but evil.

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  Evil, Greed, Mind

  "Comment, July 1961" by Gore Vidal, www.esquire.com. May 19, 2008.

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• La Carta de Derechos de Estados Unidos está siendo erosionada constantemente, con dos millones de llamadas telefónicas intervenidas, 30 millones de trabajadores bajo vigilancia electrónica y, dice el autor, innumerables estadounidenses acosados por un gobierno que libra guerras espurias contra las drogas y el terrorismo.

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  Guerra, Derechos, Gobierno

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• I have always found men quite fathomable. They look entirely to their own interest.

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  Men, Looks, Found

  Gore Vidal (2002). “Creation: a novel”, Doubleday Books

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• Politically, of course, it's to the Right, but then the whole country is to the Right.

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  Country, Courses, Whole

  "New Again: Gore Vidal". Interview with Emma Brown, Monique van Vooren, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 1, 2012.

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• Always a godfather, never a god.

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  Gore Vidal (2013). “I Told You So: Gore Vidal Talks Politics: Interviews with Jon Wiener”, p.14, Counterpoint

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• All I want is that Americans still be able to read the alphabet in a hundred years. I am not very ambitious.

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  Years, Ambitious, Want

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• Writing of history is our only heuristic principle. The Germans have a word for it, einfühlen. It is the ability to experience the past in the present and to recreate it. In my books, I have tried to recreate it in the most natural way possible: History must be integrated into the story without the weight of premonition.

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  Libro, Escritura, Pasado

  "The End of Gore Vidal". Interview with Lila Azam Zanganeh, www.guernicamag.com. August 15, 2012.

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• In the First Amendment to the Constitution, the Founders made it clear that this was not to be a sky-god nation with a national religion like that of England, from whom we had just separated. It is curious how little understood this amendment is-yes, everyone has a right to worship any god he chooses but he does not have the right to impose his beliefs on others who do not happen to share in his superstitions and taboos.

  Gore Vidal

  Sky, Religion, Doe

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• Estados Unidos es mi tema, pero como escribió una vez Hawthorne, "los Estados Unidos sirven para muchos propósitos admirables, pero no para vivir en ellos".

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  United States, Purpose, Hawthorne

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Between Malraux, Balzac, and Montaigne, I choose Montaigne. Montaigne will survive all the others, because the essay, meaning direct communication between the writer and his reader, will outlast the novel, by at least a thousand years.

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  Communication, Years, Balzac

  "The End of Gore Vidal". Interview with Lila Azam Zanganeh, www.guernicamag.com. August 15, 2012.

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• We're the most captive nation of slaves that ever came along. The moral timidity of the average American is quite noticeable. Everybody's afraid to be thought in any way different from everyone else.

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  Average, Different, Way

  "Gore Vidal: What I've Learned". Interview with Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. August 1, 2012.

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• El amor perfecto a veces no llega hasta el primer nieto.

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  Abuela, Abuela, Nietos

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• I’m exactly as I appear. There is no warm, lovable person inside. Beneath my cold exterior, once you break the ice, you find cold water.

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  Ice, Water, Cold

  "Gore Vidal and the Sky God" by R. Albert Mohler, Jr., www.christianpost.com. August 7, 2012.

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• Art is not a democracy, in fact art is the enemy of democracy

  Gore Vidal

  Art, Enemy, Democracy

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• Mi abuela me enseñó a leer. Su método se basaba en un cuento de amor antinatural llamado "El pato y el canguro". Luego, como mi abuelo, el senador Gore, era ciego, tuve que leerle libros para adultos, sobre todo de derecho constitucional y, por supuesto, las actas del Congreso. La posterior continencia de mi estilo es un milagro, teniendo en cuenta aquellos años en los que leía los comentarios adicionales del Sr. Borah, de Idaho.

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  Children, Book, Grandmother

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• Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.

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  Sex, Age, Middle

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• I'm devoted to promiscuity, and always have been. I believe the more you do, the better it is for you. I'm a great health nut, and sex is, I think, absolutely marvelous for the whole system; tones you up.

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  Sex, Believe, Thinking

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• I write in the morning at a table, longhand on yellow legal pads, just like Nixon, when I’m doing fiction.

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  Morning, Writing, Yellow

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• If [drugs] didn't exist, our government would have to invent them, the better to enact laws aimed at keeping the citizens "sinless and obedient."

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  Government, Law, Drug

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• It was a pity that movies and live TV left New York for Hollywood. London theater, movies, television - until (Britain's) money ran out - were always better than ours since the city was the political capital of the country, as well as the artistic and literary one. In L.A. we've always been slightly sealed off from real life. It's no accident that two of our most interesting directors, Woody Allen and Bob Altman, are more or less settled in the real world.

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  Country, New York, Real

  Fuente: articles.latimes.com

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