Gore Vidal Quotes - Page 8

• I can understand companionship. I can understand bought sex in the afternoon, but I cannot understand the love affair.

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  Love, Sex, Dating

  "The Moronic Inferno". Book by Martin Amis, 1987.

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• There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.

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  Doe, Rebellious, Bureaucracy

  1968 Sex, Death and Money, preface. See Frost 338:84.

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• We affect one another quite enough merely by existing. Whenever the stars cross, or is it comets? fragments pass briefly from one orbit to another. On rare occasions there is total collision, but most often the two simply continue without incident, neither losing more than a particle to the other, in passing.

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  Stars, Two, Orbit

  FaceBook post by Gore Vidal from Jul 09, 2016

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• The word heterosexual is an adjective, the word homosexual is an adjective. They describe an activity. Of course there's a homosexual activity; of course there's a heterosexual activity. But there's no homosexual person. There's no heterosexual person. Everybody is everything.

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  Adjectives, Homosexual, Persons

  "Fresh Air Remembers Writer And Critic Gore Vidal". www.npr.org. August 2, 2012.

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• All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world.

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  World, Century

  Gore Vidal (1991). “A view from the diners club: essays 1987-1991”

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• The family in the West is finished... its origin was economic, not biological... the odd group of strangers that make up every family no longer have any reason to live together, to suffer from one another's jagged edges.

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  Family, Suffering, Together

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• When Ronald Reagan's career in show business came to an end, he was hired to impersonate, first, a California governor and then an American president who would reduce taxes for his employers, the Southern and Western New Rich, much of whose money came from the defence industries. There is nothing unusual about this arrangement. All recent presidents have had their price-tags.

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  Price Tag, Careers, California

  Gore Vidal (2004). “Imperial America: Reflections on the United States of Amnesia”, p.61, CLAIRVIEW BOOKS

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• I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.

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  Ingenioso, sexual, poderoso

  "Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia: Tribeca Review" by Frank Scheck, www.hollywoodreporter.com. April 19, 2013.

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• At a certain age, you have to live near good medical care — if, that is, you're going to continue. You always have the option of not continuing, which, I fear, is sometimes nobler.

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  Age, Care, Medical

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

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• You cannot get through the density of the propaganda with which the American people, through the dreaded media, have been filled and the horrible public educational system we have for the average person. It's just grotesque.

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  Educational, Media, Average

  "Gore Vidal's America: Gore Vidal on liberty". The Real News Interview, therealnews.com. July 11, 2007.

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• En América, la carrera es para el ruidoso, el solemne, el buscavidas. Si crees que eres un gran escritor, debes decir que lo eres.

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  Thinking, Race, America

  Gore Vidal, Richard Peabody, Lucinda Ebersole (2005). “Conversations with Gore Vidal”, p.52, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Love is a fan club with only two fans.

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  Love Is, Two, Fans

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

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  Sex, Writing, Fiction

  FaceBook post by Gore Vidal from Sep 17, 2011

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• Everybody likes a bit of gossip to some point, as long as it's gossip with some point to it. That's why I like history. History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true.

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  Past, Long, Gossip

  FaceBook post by Gore Vidal from Jan 05, 2015

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• Every time a friend succeeds, I die a little.

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  Love, Dream, Littles

  "Gore Vidal quotes: 26 of the best", www.theguardian.com. August 1, 2012.

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• The greatest pleasure when I started making money was not buying cars or yachts but finding myself able to have as many freshly typed drafts as possible.

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  Finding The One, Car, Literature

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• Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.

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  Country, Business, Writing

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• The important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.

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  Gay, Lgbt Pride, Important

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• I sometimes think it is because they are so bad at expressing themselves verbally that writers take to pen and paper in the first place

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  Writing, Thinking, Paper

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• CO₂ emissions anywhere threaten civilisation everywhere.

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  Environmental, Civilisation, Emissions

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• What is there to say, finally, except that pain is bad and pleasure good, life all, death nothing.

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  Pain, Good Life, Pleasure

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• Most writers write books that they wouldn't read. I ought to know; I've done it myself.

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  Book, Writing, Done

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• I believe it's my pastoral duty to convert friends to atheism.

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  Believe, Atheism, I Believe

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I have no television to go on so I get a lot of writing done. That's my substitute for television.

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  Writing, Done, Goes On

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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...

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  Race, People, Islam

  "En casa: ensayos 1982-1988". Libro de Gore Vidal (Apéndice), 1988.

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